We also lay on ourselves the obligation to charge ourselves yearly one-third of a shekel for the service of the house of our God:
Nehemiah 5:10 - New Revised Standard Version Moreover I and my brothers and my servants are lending them money and grain. Let us stop this taking of interest. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 I likewise, and my brethren, and my servants, might exact of them money and corn: I pray you, let us leave off this usury. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition I, my brethren, and my servants are lending them money and grain. Let us stop this forbidden interest! [Exod. 22:25.] American Standard Version (1901) And I likewise, my brethren and my servants, do lend them money and grain. I pray you, let us leave off this usury. Common English Bible I myself, along with my family and my servants, am lending them money and grain. But let’s stop charging this interest! Catholic Public Domain Version Both I and my brothers, with my servants, have lent money and grain to many. Let us agree not to ask for its return. Let us forgive the other money that is owed to us. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Both I and my brethren, and my servants, have lent money and corn to many. Let us all agree not to call for it again: let us forgive the debt that is owing to us. |
We also lay on ourselves the obligation to charge ourselves yearly one-third of a shekel for the service of the house of our God:
Restore to them, this very day, their fields, their vineyards, their olive orchards, and their houses, and the interest on money, grain, wine, and oil that you have been exacting from them.”
After thinking it over, I brought charges against the nobles and the officials; I said to them, “You are all taking interest from your own people.” And I called a great assembly to deal with them,
So I said, “The thing that you are doing is not good. Should you not walk in the fear of our God, to prevent the taunts of the nations our enemies?
who do not lend money at interest, and do not take a bribe against the innocent. Those who do these things shall never be moved.
Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of injustice, to undo the thongs of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke?
takes advance or accrued interest; shall he then live? He shall not. He has done all these abominable things; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon himself.
does not oppress anyone, but restores to the debtor his pledge, commits no robbery, gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with a garment,
does not take advance or accrued interest, withholds his hand from iniquity, executes true justice between contending parties,
Alas for those who devise wickedness and evil deeds on their beds! When the morning dawns, they perform it, because it is in their power.
Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we try to persuade others; but we ourselves are well known to God, and I hope that we are also well known to your consciences.
So we are ambassadors for Christ, since God is making his appeal through us; we entreat you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.
As we work together with him, we urge you also not to accept the grace of God in vain.
And this is the manner of the remission: every creditor shall remit the claim that is held against a neighbor, not exacting it of a neighbor who is a member of the community, because the Lord's remission has been proclaimed.