- 如今我劝你们将他们的田地,葡萄园,橄榄园,房屋,并向他们所取的银钱,粮食,新酒,和油,百分之一的利息都归还他们。
- 众人说,我们必归还,不再向他们索要,必照你的话行。我就召了祭司来,叫众人起誓,必照着所应许的而行。
- 我也抖着胸前的衣襟,说,凡不成就这应许的,愿神照样抖他离开家产和他劳碌得来的,直到抖空了。会众都说,阿们。又赞美耶和华。百姓就照着所应许的去行。
- 自从我奉派作犹大地的省长,就是从亚达薛西王二十年,直到三十二年,共十二年之久,我与我弟兄都没有吃省长的俸禄。
- 在我以前的省长加重百姓的担子,每日索要粮食和酒,并银子四十舍客勒,就是他们的仆人也辖制百姓。但我因敬畏神不这样行。
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- Restore, I pray you, to them, even this day, their lands, their vineyards, their oliveyards, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and of the corn, the wine, and the oil, that ye exact of them.
- 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.
- Also I shook my lap, and said, So God shake out every man from his house, and from his labour, that performeth not this promise, even thus be he shaken out, and emptied. And all the congregation said, Amen, and praised the LORD. And the people did according to this promise.
- Moreover from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year even unto the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes the king, that is, twelve years, I and my brethren have not eaten the bread of the governor.
- But the former governors that had been before me were chargeable unto the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, beside forty shekels of silver; yea, even their servants bare rule over the people: but so did not I, because of the fear of God.
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