- Give back to them immediately their fields, vineyards, olive groves and houses, and also the usury you are charging them--the hundredth part of the money, grain, new wine and oil."
- "We will give it back," they said. "And we will not demand anything more from them. We will do as you say." Then I summoned the priests and made the nobles and officials take an oath to do what they had promised.
- I also shook out the folds of my robe and said, "In this way may God shake out of his house and possessions every man who does not keep this promise. So may such a man be shaken out and emptied!" At this the whole assembly said, "Amen," and praised the LORD. And the people did as they had promised.
- Moreover, from the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, when I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, until his thirty-second year--twelve years--neither I nor my brothers ate the food allotted to the governor.
- But the earlier governors--those preceding me--placed a heavy burden on the people and took forty shekels of silver from them in addition to food and wine. Their assistants also lorded it over the people. But out of reverence for God I did not act like that.
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- 如今我勸你們將他們的田地、葡萄園、橄欖園、房屋、並向他們所取的銀錢、糧食、新酒、和油、百分之一的利息都歸還他們。
- 眾人說、我們必歸還、不再向他們索要、必照你的話行.我就召了祭司來、叫眾人起誓、必照著所應許的而行。
- 我也抖著胸前的衣襟說、凡不成就這應許的、願 神照樣抖他離開家產和他勞碌得來的、直到抖空了。會眾都說、阿們、又讚美耶和華。百姓就照著所應許的去行。
- 自從我奉派作猶大地的省長、就是從亞達薛西王二十年、直到三十二年、共十二年之久、我與我弟兄都沒有喫省長的俸祿。
- 在我以前的省長、加重百姓的擔子、每日索要糧食和酒、並銀子四十舍客勒、就是他們的僕人也轄制百姓.但我因敬畏 神、不這樣行。
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