Neh 5:10 | NET2full | STEP | Even I and my relatives and my associates are lending them money and grain . But let us abandon this practice of seizing collateral !

Nehemiah 5:10

10 Even I and my relatives ^{▼▼tn Heb “brothers.”} and my associates ^{▼▼tn Heb “servants.”} are lending them money and grain. But let us abandon this practice of seizing collateral! ^{▼▼tn Heb “this debt.” This expression is a metonymy of association: “debt” refers to the seizure of the collateral of the debt.}