Nehemiah 10:31

10:31 We will not buy ¹  on the Sabbath or on a holy day from the neighboring peoples who bring their wares and all kinds of grain to sell on the Sabbath day. We will let the fields lie fallow every seventh year, and we will cancel every loan. ² 

Nehemiah 13:6

13:6 During all this time I was not in Jerusalem, ³  for in the thirty-second year of King Artaxerxes of Babylon, I had gone back to the king. After some time ⁴  I had requested leave of the king,

¹ tn Heb “take.”

² tn Heb “debt of every hand,” an idiom referring to the hand that holds legally binding contractual agreements.

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⁴ tn Heb “to the end of days.”