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Nehemiah 5:12-14
New Catholic Bible
Nehemiah 5:12-14
New Catholic Bible
12 They replied: “We will give it all back and demand nothing more from them. We will do just what you ask.” I then summoned the priests and made them swear to do what they had promised. 13 I also shook out the folds of my garment and said: “So may God shake out from home and property everyone who fails to adhere to this promise. May every such man be shaken out and emptied.”[a]
All the assembled people said “Amen” and praised the Lord, and they did as they promised.
14 Nehemiah’s Lack of Self-Interest. Moreover, from the twentieth year that King Artaxerxes appointed me to be their governor in the land of Judah until the thirty-second year, neither I nor my brothers ate the food allotted to the governor by the king.
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- Nehemiah 5:13 Shaken out and emptied: a symbolic act and saying that Nehemiah pronounced as a curse on anyone who failed to keep the promise to forego usury and treat people justly.