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Nehemiah 5:10
Even I and my servants have been taking interest for the money and the grain we have let them have. So now, let us give up this thing.

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Nehemiah 5:1
Then there was a great outcry from the people and their wives against their countrymen the Jews.

Nehemiah 5:2
For there were some who said, We, our sons and our daughters, are a great number: let us get grain, so that we may have food for our needs.

Nehemiah 5:3
And there were some who said, We are giving our fields and our vine-gardens and our houses for debt: let us get grain because we are in need.

Nehemiah 5:4
And there were others who said, We have given up our fields and our vine-gardens to get money for the king's taxes.

Nehemiah 5:5
But our flesh is the same as the flesh of our countrymen, and our children as their children: and now we are giving our sons and daughters into the hands of others, to be their servants, and some of our daughters are servants even now: and we have no power to put a stop to it; for other men have our fields and our vine-gardens.

Nehemiah 5:6
And on hearing their outcry and what they said I was very angry.

Nehemiah 5:7
And after turning it over in my mind, I made a protest to the chiefs and the rulers, and said to them, Every one of you is taking interest from his countryman. And I got together a great meeting of protest.

Nehemiah 5:8
And I said to them, We have given whatever we were able to give, to make our brothers the Jews free, who were servants and prisoners of the nations: and would you now give up your brothers for a price, and are they to become our property? Then they said nothing, answering not a word.

Nehemiah 5:9
And I said, What you are doing is not good: is it not the more necessary for you to go in the fear of our God, because of the shame which the nations may put on us?

Nehemiah 5:10
Even I and my servants have been taking interest for the money and the grain we have let them have. So now, let us give up this thing.

Nehemiah 5:11
Give back to them this very day their fields, their vine-gardens, their olive-gardens, and their houses, as well as a hundredth part of the money and the grain and the wine and the oil which you have taken from them.

Nehemiah 5:12
Then they said, We will give them back, and take nothing for them; we will do as you say. Then I sent for the priests and made them take an oath that they would keep this agreement.

Nehemiah 5:13
And shaking out the folds of my robe, I said, So may God send out from his house and his work every man who does not keep this agreement; even so let him be sent out and made as nothing. And all the meeting of the people said, So be it, and gave praise to the Lord. And the people did as they had said.

Ezekiel 45:9
This is what the Lord has said: Let this be enough for you, O rulers of Israel: let there be an end of violent behaviour and wasting; do what is right, judging uprightly; let there be no more driving out of my people, says the Lord.

Nehemiah 10:31
And if the peoples of the lands come to do trade in goods or food on the Sabbath day, that we would do no trade with them on the Sabbath or on a holy day: and that in the seventh year we would take no payment from any debtor.

Nehemiah 13:11
Then I made protests to the chiefs, and said, Why has the house of God been given up? And I got them together and put them in their places.

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Psalms 15:5
He who does not put out his money at interest, or for payment give false decisions against men who have done no wrong. He who does these things will never be moved.

Ezekiel 18:8
And has not given his money out at interest or taken great profits, and, turning his hand from evil-doing, has kept faith between man and man,

Exodus 22:25
If you let any of the poor among my people have the use of your money, do not be a hard creditor to him, and do not take interest.

Leviticus 25:35
And if your brother becomes poor and is not able to make a living, then you are to keep him with you, helping him as you would a man from another country who is living among you.

Leviticus 25:36
Take no interest from him, in money or in goods, but have the fear of your God before you, and let your brother make a living among you.

Leviticus 25:37
Do not take interest on the money which you let him have or on the food which you give him.

Deuteronomy 23:19
Do not take interest from an Israelite on anything, money or food or any other goods, which you let him have:

Deuteronomy 23:20
From men of other nations you may take interest, but not from an Israelite: so that the blessing of the Lord your God may be on everything to which you put your hand, in the land which you are about to take as your heritage.

Ezekiel 18:13
And has given out his money at interest and taken great profits: he will certainly not go on living: he has done all these disgusting things: death will certainly be his fate; his blood will be on him.

Ezekiel 18:17
Who has kept his hand from evil-doing and has not taken interest or great profits, who has done my orders and been guided by my rules: he will certainly not be put to death for the evil-doing of his father; life will certainly be his.

Proverbs 28:8
He who makes his wealth greater by taking interest, only gets it together for him who has pity on the poor.

Ezekiel 22:12
In you they have taken rewards as the price of blood; you have taken interest and great profits, and you have taken away your neighbours' goods by force, and have not kept me in mind, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 15:10
Sorrow is mine, my mother, because you have given birth to me, a cause of fighting and argument in all the earth! I have not made men my creditors and I am not in debt to any, but every one of them is cursing me.

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Psalms 82:2
How long will you go on judging falsely, having respect for the persons of evil-doers? (Selah.)

Psalms 82:3
Give ear to the cause of the poor and the children without fathers; let those who are troubled and in need have their rights.

Psalms 82:4
Be the saviour of the poor and those who have nothing: take them out of the hand of the evil-doers.

Jeremiah 22:16
He was judge in the cause of the poor and those in need; then it was well. Was not this to have knowledge of me? says the Lord.

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Isaiah 58:3
They say, Why have we kept ourselves from food, and you do not see it? why have we kept ourselves from pleasure, and you take no note of it? If, in the days when you keep from food, you take the chance to do your business, and get in your debts;

Isaiah 58:6
Is not this the holy day for which I have given orders: to let loose those who have wrongly been made prisoners, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the crushed go free, and every yoke be broken?

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Luke 3:14
And men of the army put questions to him, saying, And what have we to do? And he said to them, Do no violent acts to any man, and do not take anything without right, and let your payment be enough for you.

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Nehemiah 13:25
And I took up the cause against them, cursing them and giving blows to some of them and pulling out their hair; and I made them take an oath by God, saying, You are not to give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons or for yourselves.

Proverbs 28:4
Those who have no respect for the law give praise to the evil-doer; but such as keep the law are against him.

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Jeremiah 34:9
That every man was to let his Hebrew man-servant and his Hebrew servant-girl go free; so that no one might make use of a Jew, his countryman, as a servant:

Jeremiah 34:10
And this was done by all the rulers and the people who had taken part in the agreement, and every one let his man-servant and his servant-girl go free, not to be used as servants any longer; they did so, and let them go.

Jeremiah 34:11
But later, they took back again the servants and the servant-girls whom they had let go free, and put them again under the yoke as servants and servant-girls.

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Luke 3:13
And he said to them, Do not make an attempt to get more money than the right amount.

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