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Nehemiah 5:11

Restore, I pray you, to them, even this day, their lands, their vineyards, their oliveyards, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and of the grain, the wine, and the oil, that you exact of them.

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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849

For them, to the Persian governors, ver. 14. (Haydock) Nehemias remits this pension, which was before paid by the people, and exacted by the rich. (Wolphius) Du Moulin asserts that there is no question of usury, which the Jews always abhorred, much less of that which the Romans called the 100th, (Calmet) consisting in the payment of 12 per cent, (Tirinus) or one every month. (Menochius) Hebrew, "Give back to them, "(Haydock) that they may enjoy those things.

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