I likewise, and my brethren, and my servants, might exact of them money and corn: I pray you, let us leave off this usury.
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Gill's Exposition
Restore, I pray you, even this day, their lands, their vineyards, their oliveyards, and their houses,.... Which they had made over to them for corn they had had, or money they borrowed of them; it is…
Barnes' Notes
I ... might exact - Nehemiah had lent, but not upon pledge.
It should seem the foregoing complaint was made to Nehemiah at the time when he had his head and hands as full as possible of the public business about building the wall; yet, perceiving it to be…
Cambridge Bible
I likewise, and my brethren, and my servants R.V. And I likewise, my brethren and my servants. We must conclude from this verse that Nehemiah himself lent -on usury" to his countrymen. The words are…
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