Nehemiah 5 · Verse 10

Nehemiah 5:10

I likewise, and my brethren, and my servants, might exact of them money and corn: I pray you, let us leave off this usury.
Nehemiah 5:10, King James Version

Nehemiah 5:10 in other translations

BSBI, as well as my brothers and my servants, have been lending the people money and grain. Please, let us stop this usury.
WEBI likewise, my brothers and my servants, lend them money and grain. Please let us stop this usury.
ASVAnd I likewise, my brethren and my servants, do lend them money and grain. I pray you, let us leave off this usury.
YLTAnd also, I, my brethren, and my servants, are exacting of them silver and corn; let us leave off, I pray you, this usury.
DARBYI also, my brethren and my servants, we might exact usury of them, money and corn. I pray you, let us leave off this usury.
BBEEven 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.
WebsterI likewise, my brethren, and my servants, might exact of them money and corn: I pray you, let us leave off this usury.

What does Nehemiah 5:10 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Nehemiah 5:6-12

Ne 5:6-19. The Usurers Rebuked. 6-12. I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words--When such disorders came to the knowledge of the governor, his honest indignation was roused against the perpetrators of the evil. Having summoned a public assembly, he denounced their conduct in terms of just severity. He contrasted it with his own in redeeming with his money some of the Jewish exiles who, through debt or…

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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Nehemiah 5:6-13

Nehemiah knew that, if he built Jerusalem's walls ever so high, so thick, or so strong, the city could not be safe while there were abuses. The right way to reform men's lives, is to convince their consciences. If you walk in the fear of God, you will not be either covetous of worldly gain, or cruel toward your brethren. Nothing exposes religion more to reproach, than the worldliness and hard-heartedness of the…

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Nehemiah 5:10 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וְגַם\־ve.gam-and alsoH1571
אֲנִי֙'a.NiIH589
אַחַ֣י'a.Chaibrothers myH251
וּנְעָרַ֔יu.ne.'a.Raiand servants myH5288
נֹשִׁ֥יםno.Shim[are] lendingH5383
בָּהֶ֖םba.Hemto them
כֶּ֣סֶףKe.sefmoneyH3701
וְדָגָ֑ןve.da.Ganand grainH1715
נַֽעַזְבָה\־na.'az.vah-let us abandonH5800
נָּ֖אna'pleaseH4994
אֶת\־'et-<obj.>H853
הַמַּשָּׁ֥אha.ma.Sha'the usuryH4855
הַזֶּֽה\׃ha.Zeh<the> thisH2088

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Nehemiah 5:10

  • 2 Corinthians 6:1

    We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.

  • Exodus 22:25-27

    If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury. If thou at all take thy neighbour’s raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down: For that is his covering only, it is his raiment for his skin: wherein shall he sleep? and it shall come to pass, when he crieth unto me, that I will hear; for I am gracious.

  • Ezekiel 18:13

    Hath given forth upon usury, and hath taken increase: shall he then live? he shall not live: he hath done all these abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon him.

  • 1 Corinthians 9:12-18

    If others be partakers of this power over you, are not we rather? Nevertheless we have not used this power; but suffer all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ. Do ye not know that they which minister about holy things live of the things of the temple? and they which wait at the altar are partakers with the altar? Even so hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the gospel should live of the gospel. But I have used none of these things: neither have I written these things, that it should be so done unto me: for it were better for me to die, than that any man should make my glorying void. …

  • Micah 2:1

    Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.

  • 2 Corinthians 5:20

    Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God.

  • Ezekiel 18:8

    He that hath not given forth upon usury, neither hath taken any increase, that hath withdrawn his hand from iniquity, hath executed true judgment between man and man,

  • Philemon 1:8-9

    Wherefore, though I might be much bold in Christ to enjoin thee that which is convenient, Yet for love’s sake I rather beseech thee, being such an one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.

  • Luke 3:13-14

    And he said unto them, Exact no more than that which is appointed you. And the soldiers likewise demanded of him, saying, And what shall we do? And he said unto them, Do violence to no man, neither accuse any falsely; and be content with your wages.

  • Nehemiah 5:7

    Then I consulted with myself, and I rebuked the nobles, and the rulers, and said unto them, Ye exact usury, every one of his brother. And I set a great assembly against them.

  • Psalms 15:5

    He that putteth not out his money to usury, nor taketh reward against the innocent. He that doeth these things shall never be moved.

  • 2 Corinthians 5:11

    Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made manifest unto God; and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
I likewise.
Mic 2:1; Lu 3:13,14; 1Co 9:12-18
I pray you.
2Co 5:11,20; 6:1; Phm 1:8,9
leave.
7; Ex 22:25-27; Ps 15:5; Eze 18:8,13

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Context

  • Nehemiah 5:9

    Also I said, It is not good that ye do: ought ye not to walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the heathen our enemies?

  • Nehemiah 5:10

    I likewise, and my brethren, and my servants, might exact of them money and corn: I pray you, let us leave off this usury.

  • Nehemiah 5:11

    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.

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Nehemiah 5:10 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
También yo, y mis hermanos, y mis criados, les hemos prestado dinero y grano: relevémosles ahora de este gravamen.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Moi aussi, mes frères et mes jeunes hommes, nous pourrions exiger d’eux, comme intérêt, de l’argent et du blé. Laissons, je vous prie, cette usure.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Aber auch ich, meine Brüder und meine Diener, wir haben ihnen Geld und Getreide auf Zins geliehen. Laßt uns doch diesen Zins erlassen!
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Et ego, et fratres mei, et pueri mei commodavimus plurimis pecuniam et frumentum. Non repetamus in commune istud: æs alienum concedamus quod debetur nobis.