Devine Scripture

Nehemiah 10:31

Nehemiah chapter 10 · verse 31 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

and if the peoples of the land bring wares or any grain on the sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy of them on the sabbath, or on a holy day; and that we would forego the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

And if the people of the land bring ware or any victuals on the sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy it of them on the sabbath, or on the holy day: and that we would leave the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

and if the peoples of the land bring wares or any grain on the sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy of them on the sabbath, or on a holy day; and that we would forego the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt.

Context

v.30and that we would not give our daughters unto the peoples of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons;

v.31This passage

v.32Also we made ordinances for us, to charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God;

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Deuteronomy 15:1

    At the end of every seven years thou shalt make a release.

  • Leviticus 23:21

    And ye shall make proclamation on the selfsame day; there shall be a holy convocation unto you; ye shall do no servile work: it is a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.

  • Nehemiah 5:1

    Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.

  • Isaiah 58:13

    If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, and the holy of Jehovah honorable; and shalt honor it, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:

  • Deuteronomy 15:7

    If there be with thee a poor man, one of thy brethren, within any of thy gates in thy land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thy heart, nor shut thy hand from thy poor brother;

  • Matthew 18:27

    And the lord of that servant, being moved with compassion, released him, and forgave him the debt.