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Chapter 5 And there was a great cry of the
people and of their wives against their

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brethren the Jews.

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For there were that said, We, our sons and
our daughters, are many.

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Therefore we take up corn for them that we
may eat and live.

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Some also there were that said,
We have mortgaged our lands, vineyards,

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and houses, that we might buy corn because
of the dearth.

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There were also that said, We have
borrowed money for the king's tribute,

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and that upon our lands and vineyards.

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Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our
brethren, our children as their children.

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And lo, we bring into bondage our sons and
our daughters to be servants, and some of

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our daughters are brought unto bondage
already.

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Neither is it in our power to redeem them,
for other men have our lands and

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vineyards.

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And I was very angry when I heard their
cry in these words.

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Then I consulted with myself, and I
rebuked the nobles and the rulers,

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and said unto them, Ye exact usury,
every one of his brother.

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And I set a great assembly against them.

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And I said unto them, We after our ability
have redeemed our brethren the Jews,

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which were sold unto the heathen.

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And will ye even sell your brethren,
or shall they be sold unto us?

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Then held they their peace, and found
nothing to answer.

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Also I said, It is not good that ye do.

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Ought ye not to walk in the fear of our
God, because of the reproach of the

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heathen, our enemies?

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I likewise, and my brethren, and my
servants, might exact of them money and

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corn.

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I pray you, let us leave off this usury.

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Restore, I pray you, to them, even this
day, their lands, their vineyards,

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their olive yards, and their houses,
also the hundredth part of the money,

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and of the corn, the wine, and the oil,
that ye exact of them.

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Then said they, We will restore them,
and will require nothing of them.

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So will we do as thou sayest.

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Then I called the priests, and took an
oath of them, that they should do

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according to this promise.

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Also I shook my lap, and said,
So God shake out every man from his house,

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and from his labour, that performeth not
this promise.

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Even thus be he shaken out, and emptied.

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And all the congregation said,
Amen, and praised the Lord.

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And the people did according to this
promise.

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Moreover, from the time that I was
appointed to be their governor in the land

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of Judah, from the twentieth year even
unto the two and thirtieth year of

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Artaxerxes the king, that is twelve years,
I and my brethren have not eaten the bread

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of the governor.

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But the former governors that had been
before me were chargeable unto the people,

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and had taken of them bread and wine,
beside forty shekels of silver.

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Yea, even their servants bear rule over
the people.

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But so did not I, because of the fear of
God.

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Yea, also I continued in the work of this
wall, neither bought we any land.

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And all my servants were gathered thither
unto the work.

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Moreover, there were at my table an
hundred and fifty of the Jews and rulers,

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beside those that came unto us from among
the heathen that are about us.

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Now that which was prepared for me daily
was one ox and six choice sheep.

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Also fowls were prepared for me,
and once in ten days store of all sorts of

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wine.

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Yet for all this required not I the bread
of the governor, because the bondage was

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heavy upon this people.

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Think upon me, my God, for good,
according to all that I have done for this people.