The art Bible, comprising the Old and new Testaments : with numerous illustrations . that ye do: oughtye not to walk in thefear of our God becauseof the reproach of theheathen our enemies? 10 I likewise, a7id mybrethren, and my ser-vants, might exact ofthem money and corn: Ipray you, let us leave offthis usury. 11 Restore, I pray you, 576 to them, even this day, their lands, theirvineyards, their oliveyards, and their houses,also the hundredth ^ja?-* of the money, andof the corn, the wine, and the oil, that yeexact of them. 12 Then said they, We will restore them,and will require nothing of th
The art Bible, comprising the Old and new Testaments : with numerous illustrations . that ye do: oughtye not to walk in thefear of our God becauseof the reproach of theheathen our enemies? 10 I likewise, a7id mybrethren, and my ser-vants, might exact ofthem money and corn: Ipray you, let us leave offthis usury. 11 Restore, I pray you, 576 to them, even this day, their lands, theirvineyards, their oliveyards, and their houses,also the hundredth ^ja?-* of the money, andof the corn, the wine, and the oil, that yeexact of them. 12 Then said they, We will restore them,and will require nothing of them; so will wedo as thou sayest. Then I called the priests,and took an oath of them, that they shoulddo according to this promise. 13 Also I shook my lap, and said, So Godshake out every man from his house, andfiom his labour, that performeth not thispromise, even thus be ne shaken out, andemptied. And all the congregation said,Amen, and praised the Lord. And thepeople did according to this promise. 14 IF Moreover from the time that I wasappointed to be their governor in the land. Sent Sanballat his servant unto me . .the fifth time with an open letter in hishand.—Neh. vi. 5. Plot of Sanballat and others. NEHEMIAH 6, 7. Completion of the wall. of Judah, from the twentieth year even untothe two and thirtieth year of Arfcaxerxes theking, that is, twelve years, I and my brethrenhave not eaten the bread of the governor. 15 But the former governors that had beenbefore me were chargeable unto the iieople,and had taken of them bread and wine, be-side forty shekels of silver; yea, even theirservants bare rule over the people: but sodid not I, because of the fear of God. 16 Yea, also I continued in the work of thiswall, neither bought we any land : and all myservants were gathered thither unto the work. 17 i\Ioreover there were at my table an hun-dred and fifty of the Jews and rulers, besidethose that came unto us from among theheathen that are about us. 18 Now that which was prepared
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