Nehemia 6:8

6:8 I sent word back to him, “We are not engaged in these activities you are describing. ¹  All of this is a figment of your imagination.” ² 

Nehemia 5:8

5:8 I said to them, “To the extent possible we have bought back our fellow Jews ³  who had been sold to the Gentiles. But now you yourselves want to sell your own countrymen, ⁴  so that we can then buy them back!” They were utterly silent, and could find nothing to say.

Nehemia 6:14

6:14 Remember, O my God, Tobiah and Sanballat in light of these actions of theirs – also Noadiah the prophetess and the other prophets who were trying to scare me!

[6:8]  ¹ tn Heb “We are not according to these matters that you are saying.”

[6:8]  ² tn Heb “For from your heart you are inventing them.”

[5:8]  ³ tn Heb “our brothers, the Jews.”

[5:8]  ⁴ tn Heb “your brothers.”