¹⁰ I and my brothers and my men are also lending the people money and grain. But let us stop charging interest!^{(A) 11} Give back to them immediately their fields, vineyards, olive groves and houses, and also the interest^(B) you are charging them—one percent of the money, grain, new wine and olive oil.”

¹² “We will give it back,” they said. “And we will not demand anything more from them. We will do as you say.”

Then I summoned the priests and made the nobles and officials take an oath^(C) to do what they had promised.

⁹ Everyone was to free their Hebrew slaves, both male and female; no one was to hold a fellow Hebrew in bondage.^(A)