10 And likewise I, my brothers and my servants are lending them money and grain. Please, let us leave off this usury. 11 Please, give back to them this very day their fields, their vineyards, their olive groves and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money and of the grain, the new wine and the oil that you are exacting from them.” 12 Then they said, “We (A)will give it back and (B)will require nothing from them; we will do exactly as you say.” So I called the priests and (C)took an oath from them that they would do according to this [a]promise.

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  1. Nehemiah 5:12 Lit word