Nehemia 5:1

Nehemiah Intervenes on behalf of the Oppressed

5:1 Then there was a great outcry from the people and their wives against their fellow Jews. ¹ 

Nehemia 6:13

6:13 He had been hired to scare me so that I would do this and thereby sin. They would thus bring reproach on me and I ²  would be discredited. ³ 

Nehemia 13:17

13:17 So I registered a complaint with the nobles of Judah, saying to them, “What is this evil thing that you are doing, profaning the Sabbath day?

Nehemia 13:29

13:29 Please remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, the covenant of the priesthood, ⁴  and the Levites.

[5:1]  ¹ tn Heb “their brothers the Jews.”

[6:13]  ² tc The translation reads לִי (li, “to me”) rather than the MT reading לָהֶם (lahem, “to them”).

[6:13]  ³ tn Heb “would have a bad name.”

[13:29]  ⁴ tc One medieval Hebrew MS, the Lucianic Greek recension, and the Syriac Peshitta read the plural הַכֹּהֲנִים (hakkohanim, “the priests”) rather than the singular reading of the MT, הַכְּהֻנָּה (hakkÿhunnah, “the priesthood”).