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Nehemiah chapter 5 verses 9 through 12.

So I said the thing that you are doing is not good.

Ought you not to walk in the fear of our gods? The thing that you are doing is not good.

Ought you not to walk in the fear of our God

to prevent the taunts of the nations, our enemies?

Moreover, I and my brothers and my servants are lending them money and grain. Let us abandon this exacting of

interest, return to them this very day their fields, their vineyards, their

olive orchards, and their houses, and the percentage of money grain their

vineyards, their olive orchards, and their houses, and the percentage of money, grain, wine, and oil

that you have been exacting from them.

Then they said,

We will restore these and require nothing from them.

We will do, and require nothing from them.

We will do as you say.

And I called the priests and made them swear to do as they had promised.

What's happening here is as the walls of Jerusalem are being rebuilt and the people of God

are reorganizing there are some among God's people who are oppressing their

brothers and sisters among God's people.

And Nehemiah finds out about it and says, no, don't do this.

Don't take advantage of each other in this way. Do justice and show mercy to each other.

So even if it's all this opposition from outside, here's part of the opposition from inside, they're not

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