RESTORATION SCRIPTURES TRUE NAME EDITION Study Bible

eing repaired, and that the broken places began to be
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fixed, then they were very angry,
8 And conspired all of them together to come and to fight
against Yahrushalayim, and to harm it.
9 Nevertheless we made our tefillah to our Elohim, and
set a watch against them day and night, because of them.
10 And Yahudah said, The strength of the bearers of
burdens is weakening, and there is much rubbish; so that
we are not able to build the wall.
11 And our adversaries said, They shall not know, neither
see, until we come in the midst among them, and slay
them, and cause the work to cease.
12 And it came to pass, that when the Yahudim who
dwelt by them came, they said to us ten times, From all
places wherever you turn they are against us.
13 So I set in the lower places behind the wall, and on the
higher places, I set the people according to their
mishpachot with their swords, their spears, and their
bows.
14 And I looked, and rose up, and said to the nobles, and
to the heads, and to the rest of the people, Be not afraid of
them: remember vuvh, who is great and terrible, and
fights for your brothers, your sons, and your daughters,
your wives, and your houses.
15 And it came to pass, when our enemies heard that it
was known to us, and Elohim had brought their counsel to
nothing, that we returned all of us to the wall, everyone to
his work.
16 And it came to pass from that time forward that the
half of my avadim worked in the work and the other half
of them held the spears, the shields, and the bows, and the
breastplates; and the heads were behind all the Bayit of
Yahudah.
17 They, who built on the wall, and they that bore
burdens, with those that loaded, everyone with one of his
hands worked in the work, and with the other hand held a
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18 For the builders, everyone had his sword girded by his
side, and so built. And he that sounded the shofar was by
me.
19 And I said to the nobles, and to the heads, and to the
rest of the people, The work is great and large, and we are
separated upon the wall, one far from another.
20 In whatever place therefore you hear the sound of the
shofar, join us there: our Elohim shall fight for us.
21 So we labored in the work: and half of them held the
spears from the rising of the morning until the cochavim
appeared.
22 Likewise at the same time I said to the people, Let
every one with his eved sleep within Yahrushalayim, that
in the night they may be a guard for us, and labor on the
day.
23 So neither I, nor my brothers, nor my avadim, nor the
men of the guard who followed me, none of us took off
our clothes, except that every one put them off for
washing.
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And there was a great cry of the people and of their
wives against their brothers the Yahudim.
2 For some said, We, our sons, and our daughters, are
many: therefore we take up corn for them, that we may
eat, and live.
3 Some also were there that said, We have mortgaged our
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lands, vineyards, and houses, that we might buy corn,
because of the famine.
4 There were also those that said, We have borrowed
money for the melech’s tax that is upon our lands and
vineyards.
5 Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our
children as their children: and, see, we bring into bondage
our sons and our daughters to be avadim, and some of our
daughters are brought to subjection already: neither is it
in power of our hands; for other men have our lands and
vineyards.
6 And I was very angry when I heard their cry and these
words.
7 Then my lev ruled me, and I rebuked the nobles, and the
heads, and said to them, You charge interest, everyone
from his brother. And I called out a great congregation
against them.
8 And I said to them, We according to our ability have
redeemed our brothers the Yahudim, who were sold to the
nations; 4184 and will you now sell your brothers? Or,
shall they be sold to us? Then they were silent, and found
nothing to answer.
9 Also I said, It is not tov what you do: should you not
rather have your halacha in the fear of our Elohim
because of the reproach of our heathen enemies?
10 I and my brothers, and my avadim, are lending them
money and corn: I ask you, let us stop with this interest.
11 Please restore, to them, even this day, their lands, their
vineyards, their olive-yards, and their houses, also the
hundredth part of the money, and the corn, the wine, the
oil that you took from them.
12 Then they said, We will restore it to them, and will
require nothing from them; so will we do as you have
said. Then I called the Kohanim, and took an oath from
them, that they should do according to this promise.
13 Also I shook my garment, and said, So Elohim shake
out every man from his bayit, and from his property, that
performs not this promise, even so he shall be shaken out,
and emptied. And the entire congregation said, Amein,
and gave tehilla to vuvh. And the people did according to
this promise.
14 Moreover from the time that I was appointed to be
their governor in the land of Yahudah, from the twentieth
year even to the thirty-second year of Artahshashta the
melech, that is, twelve years, I and my brothers have not
eaten the lechem of their governors.
15 But the former governors that were before me laid
burdens on the people, and had taken from them lechem
and wine, beside forty shekels of silver; yes, even their
avadim bore rule over the people: but I did not do that,
because of my fear of Elohim.
16 Yes, also I continued in the work of this wall, neither
bought we any land: and all my avadim were gathered
there to the work.
17 Also there were at my shulchan a hundred fifty of the
Yahudim and heads, beside those that came to us from
among the heathen that are around us. 4185
18 Now that which was prepared for me daily was one ox
and six choice sheep; also fowls were prepared for me,
and once in ten days of all sorts of wine: yet for all this I
required not the food for the governor, because the
bondage was heavy upon this people.
19 Think upon me, my Elohim, for tov, according to all