Then all the assembly answered with a loud voice, As you have said concerning us, so must we do.
Nehemiah 5:12 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) Then said they, We will restore them, and will require nothing of them; so will we do, even as you say. Then I called the Kohanim, and took an oath of them, that they would do according to this promise. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Then said they, We will restore them, and will require nothing of them; so will we do as thou sayest. Then I called the priests, and took an oath of them, that they should do according to this promise. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Then they said, We will restore these and require nothing from them. We will do as you say. Then I called the priests and took an oath of the lenders that they would do according to this promise. American Standard Version (1901) Then said they, We will restore them, and will require nothing of them; so will we do, even as thou sayest. Then I called the priests, and took an oath of them, that they would do according to this promise. Common English Bible They replied, “We’ll return everything, and we won’t charge anything else. We’ll do what you’ve asked.” So I called the priests and made them swear to do what they had promised. Catholic Public Domain Version And they said: "We will restore it, and we will require nothing from them. And we will do just as you say." And I called the priests, and I had them swear an oath, so that they would act in accord with what I had said. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And they said: We will restore, and we will require nothing of them; and we will do as thou sayest. And I called the priests and took an oath of them, to do according to what I had said. |
Then all the assembly answered with a loud voice, As you have said concerning us, so must we do.
Then arose Ezra, and made the chiefs of the Kohanim, the Levites, and all Yisra'el, to swear that they would do according to this word. So they swore.
They joined with their brothers, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God's law, which was given by Moshe the servant of God, and to observe and do all the mitzvot of the LORD our Lord, and his ordinances and his statutes;
and that we would not give our daughters to the peoples of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons;
and if the peoples of the land bring wares or any grain on the day of Shabbat to sell, that we would not buy of them on the Shabbat, or on a holy day; and that we would forego the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt.
I contended with them, and cursed them, and struck certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, [saying], You shall not give your daughters to their sons, nor take their daughters for your sons, or for yourselves.
Please restore to them, even this day, their fields, their vineyards, their olive groves, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and of the grain, the new wine, and the oil, that you exact of them.
But Yeshua held his shalom. The Kohen Gadol answered him, *I adjure you by the living God, that you tell us whether you are the Messiah, the Son of God.*
Zakkai stood and said to the Lord, *Behold, Lord, half of my goods I give to the poor. If I have wrongfully exacted anything of anyone, I restore four times as much.*