< Nehemiah 5 >
1 and to be cry [the] people and woman: wife their great: large to(wards) brother: compatriot their [the] Jew
And the cry of the people and their wives [was] great against their brethren the Jews.
2 and there which to say son: child our and daughter our we many and to take: take grain and to eat and to live
And some said, We [are] numerous with our sons and our daughters; so we will take corn, and eat, and live.
3 and there which to say land: country our and vineyard our and house: home our we to pledge and to take: take grain in/on/with famine
And some said, [As to] our fields and vineyards and houses, let us pledge [them], and we will take corn, and eat.
4 and there which to say to borrow silver: money to/for tribute [the] king land: country our and vineyard our
And some said, We have borrowed money for the king's tributes: —our fields, and our vineyards, and houses [are pledged].
5 and now like/as flesh brother: compatriot our flesh our like/as son: child their son: child our and behold we to subdue [obj] son: child our and [obj] daughter our to/for servant/slave and there from daughter our to subdue and nothing to/for god: power hand: power our and land: country our and vineyard our to/for another
And now our flesh [is] as the flesh of our brethren, our children [are] as their children: yet, behold, we are reducing our sons and our daughters to slavery, and some of our daughters are enslaved: and there is no power of our hands, for our fields and our vineyards [belong] to the nobles.
6 and to be incensed to/for me much like/as as which to hear: hear [obj] outcry their and [obj] [the] word [the] these
And I was much grieved as I heard their cry and these words.
7 and to advise heart my upon me and to contend [emph?] with [the] noble and with [the] ruler and to say [emph?] to/for them interest man: anyone in/on/with brother: compatriot his you(m. p.) (to lift: aid *Q(K)*) and to give: make upon them assembly great: large
And my heart took counsel within me, and I contended against the nobles, and the princes, and I said to them, Should every man demand of his brother what ye demand? And I appointed against them a great assembly,
8 and to say [emph?] to/for them we to buy [obj] brother: compatriot our [the] Jew [the] to sell to/for nation like/as sufficiency in/on/with us and also you(m. p.) to sell [obj] brother: compatriot your and to sell to/for us and be quiet and not to find word
and I said to them, We of our free-will have redeemed our brethren the Jews that were sold to the Gentiles; and do ye sell your brethren? and shall they be delivered to us? And they were silent, and found no answer.
9 (and to say *Q(K)*) not pleasant [the] word: thing which you(m. p.) to make: do not in/on/with fear God our to go: walk from reproach [the] nation enemy our
And I said, The thing which ye do [is] not good; ye will not so walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the Gentiles our enemies.
10 and also I brother: male-sibling my and youth my to lend in/on/with them silver: money and grain to leave: forsake please [obj] [the] interest [the] this
Both my brethren, and my acquaintances, and I, have lent them money and corn: let us now leave off this exaction.
11 to return: return please to/for them like/as [the] day land: country their vineyard their olive their and house: home their and hundred [the] silver: money and [the] grain [the] new wine and [the] oil which you(m. p.) to lend in/on/with them
Restore to them, I pray, as at this day, their fields, and their vineyards, and their olive-yards, and their houses, and bring forth to them corn and wine and oil of the money.
12 and to say to return: rescue and from them not to seek so to make: do like/as as which you(m. s.) to say and to call: call to [obj] [the] priest and to swear them to/for to make: do like/as Chronicles [the] this
And they said, We will restore, and we will not exact of them; we will do thus as thou sayest. Then I called the priests, and bound them by oath to do according to this word.
13 also bosom my to shake and to say [emph?] thus to shake [the] God [obj] all [the] man which not to arise: establish [obj] [the] word: promised [the] this from house: home his and from toil his and thus to be to shake and worthless and to say all [the] assembly amen and to boast: praise [obj] LORD and to make: do [the] people like/as Chronicles [the] this
And I shook out my garment, and said, So may God shake out every man who shall not keep to this word, from his house, and from his labours, he shall be even thus shaken out, as an outcast and empty. And all the congregation said, Amen, and they praised the Lord: and the people did this thing.
14 also from day which to command [obj] me to/for to be governor their in/on/with land: country/planet Judah from year twenty and till year thirty and two to/for Artaxerxes [the] king year two ten I and brother: male-sibling my food: allowance [the] governor not to eat
From the day that he charged me to be their ruler in the land of Juda, from the twentieth year even to the thirty-second year of Arthasastha, twelve years, I and my brethren ate not [provision] extorted from them.
15 and [the] governor [the] first: previous which to/for face: before my to honor: heavy upon [the] people and to take: take from them in/on/with food: allowance and wine after silver: money shekel forty also youth their to domineer upon [the] people and I not to make: do so from face: because fear God
But as for the former acts of extortion wherein [those who were] before me oppressed them, they even took of them their last money, forty didrachms for bread and wine; and the [very] outcasts of them exercised authority over the people: but I did not so, because of the fear of God.
16 and also in/on/with work [the] wall [the] this to strengthen: persevere and land: country not to buy and all youth my to gather there upon [the] work
Also in the work of the wall I treated them not with rigor, I bought not land: and all that were gathered together [came] thither to the work.
17 and [the] Jew and [the] ruler hundred and fifty man and [the] to come (in): come to(wards) us from [the] nation which around us upon table my
And the Jews, to [the number of] a hundred and fifty men, besides those coming to us from the nations round about, [were] at my table.
18 and which to be to make: do to/for day one cattle one flock six to purify and bird to make: do to/for me and between ten day in/on/with all wine to/for to multiply and with this food: allowance [the] governor not to seek for to honor: heavy [the] service upon [the] people [the] this
And there came [to me] for one day one calf, and I had six choice sheep and a goat; and every ten days wine in abundance of all sorts: yet with these I required not the bread of extortion, because the bondage was heavy upon this people.
19 to remember [emph?] to/for me God my to/for welfare all which to make: do upon [the] people [the] this
Remember me, O God, for good, [in] all that I have done to this people.