H9025–נוּ–mu

For there were some who said, We, our sons and our daughters, are a great number: let us get grain, so that we may have food for our needs.

בָּנֵ֥ינוּ (נוּ) nu “our”וּבְנֹתֵ֖ינוּ (נוּ) nu “our”

And there were some who said, We are giving our fields and our vine-gardens and our houses for debt: let us get grain because we are in need.

שְׂדֹתֵ֛ינוּ (נוּ) nu “our”וּכְרָמֵ֥ינוּ (נוּ) nu “our”וּבָתֵּ֖ינוּ (נוּ) nu “our”

And there were others who said, We have given up our fields and our vine-gardens to get money for the king's taxes.

שְׂדֹתֵ֖ינוּ (נוּ) nu “our”וּכְרָמֵֽינוּ׃ (נוּ) nu “our”

But our flesh is the same as the flesh of our countrymen, and our children as their children: and now we are giving our sons and daughters into the hands of others, to be their servants, and some of our daughters are servants even now: and we have no pow

אַחֵ֙ינוּ֙ (נוּ֙) nu “our”בְּשָׂרֵ֔נוּ (נוּ) nu “our”בָּנֵ֑ינוּ (נוּ) nu “our”בָּנֵ֨ינוּ (נוּ) nu “our”בְּנֹתֵ֜ינוּ (נוּ) nu “our”מִבְּנֹתֵ֤ינוּ (נוּ) nu “our”יָדֵ֔נוּ (נוּ) nu “our”וּשְׂדֹתֵ֥ינוּ (נוּ) nu “our”וּכְרָמֵ֖ינוּ (נוּ) nu “our”

And I said to them, We have given whatever we were able to give, to make our brothers the Jews free, who were servants and prisoners of the nations: and would you now give up your brothers for a price, and are they to become our property? Then they said

אַחֵ֨ינוּ (נוּ) nu “our”

And I said, What you are doing is not good: is it not the more necessary for you to go in the fear of our God, because of the shame which the nations may put on us?

אֱלֹהֵ֙ינוּ֙ (נוּ֙) nu “our”אוֹיְבֵֽינוּ׃ (נוּ) nu “our”

Now when word was given to Sanballat and Tobiah and to Geshem the Arabian and to the rest of our haters, that I had done the building of the wall and that there were no more broken places in it (though even then I had not put up the doors in the doorways

אֹֽיְבֵ֗ינוּ (נוּ) nu “our”

And when our haters had news of this, all the nations round about us were full of fear and were greatly shamed, for they saw that this work had been done by our God.

א֣וֹיְבֵ֔ינוּ (נוּ) nu “our”אֱלֹהֵ֔ינוּ (נוּ) nu “our”

Then he said to them, Go away now, and take the fat for your food and the sweet for your drink, and send some to him for whom nothing is made ready: for this day is holy to our Lord: and let there be no grief in your hearts; for the joy of the Lord is yo

לַאֲדֹנֵ֑ינוּ (נוּ) nu “our”

And you saw the trouble of our fathers in Egypt, and their cry came to your ears by the Red Sea;

אֲבֹתֵ֖ינוּ (נוּ) nu “our”

But they and our fathers, in their pride, made their necks stiff, and gave no attention to your orders,

וַאֲבֹתֵ֖ינוּ (נוּ) nu “our”

And now, our God, the great, the strong, the God who is to be feared, who keeps faith and mercy, let not all this trouble seem small to you, which has come on us, and on our kings and our rulers and on our priests and our prophets and our fathers and on

אֱ֠לֹהֵינוּ (נוּ) nu “our”לִמְלָכֵ֨ינוּ (נוּ) nu “our”לְשָׂרֵ֧ינוּ (נוּ) nu “our”וּלְכֹהֲנֵ֛ינוּ (נוּ) nu “our”וְלִנְבִיאֵ֥נוּ (נוּ) nu “our”וְלַאֲבֹתֵ֖ינוּ (נוּ) nu “our”

And our kings, our rulers, our priests, and our fathers have not kept your law or given attention to your orders and your witness, with which you gave witness against them.

מְלָכֵ֤ינוּ (נוּ) nu “our”שָׂרֵ֙ינוּ֙ (נוּ֙) nu “our”כֹּהֲנֵ֣ינוּ (נוּ) nu “our”וַאֲבֹתֵ֔ינוּ (נוּ) nu “our”

Now, today, we are servants, and as for the land which you gave to our fathers, so that the produce of it and the good might be theirs, see, we are servants in it:

לַאֲבֹתֵ֗ינוּ (נוּ) nu “our”

And it gives much increase to the kings whom you have put over us because of our sins: and they have power over our bodies and over our cattle at their pleasure, and we are in great trouble.

בְּחַטֹּאותֵ֑ינוּ (נוּ) nu “our”גְּ֠וִיֹּתֵינוּ (נוּ) nu “our”וּבִבְהֶמְתֵּ֙נוּ֙ (נוּ֙) nu “our”

And because of all this we are making an agreement in good faith, and putting it in writing; and our rulers, our Levites, and our priests are putting their names to it.

שָׂרֵ֥ינוּ (נוּ) nu “our”לְוִיֵּ֖נוּ (נוּ) nu “our”כֹּהֲנֵֽינוּ׃ (נוּ) nu “our”

They were united with their brothers, their rulers, and put themselves under a curse and an oath, to keep their steps in the way of God's law, which was given by Moses, the servant of God, and to keep and do all the orders of the Lord, our Lord, and his

אֲדֹנֵ֔ינוּ (נוּ) nu “our”

And that we would not give our daughters to the peoples of the lands, or take their daughters for our sons;

בְּנֹתֵ֖ינוּ (נוּ) nu “our”לְבָנֵֽינוּ׃ (נוּ) nu “our”

And we made rules for ourselves, taxing ourselves a third of a shekel every year for the upkeep of the house of our God;

אֱלֹהֵֽינוּ׃ (נוּ) nu “our”

For the holy bread, and for the regular meal offering and the regular burned offering on the Sabbaths and at the new moon and the fixed feasts, and for the sin-offerings to take away the sin of Israel, and for all the work of the house of our God.

אֱלֹהֵֽינוּ׃ (נוּ) nu “our”

And we, the priests and the Levites and the people, made selection, by the decision of the Lord, of those who were to take the wood offering into the house of God, by families at the regular times, year by year, to be burned on the altar of the Lord our

אֱלֹהֵ֧ינוּ (נוּ) nu “our”אֲבֹתֵ֛ינוּ (נוּ) nu “our”אֱלֹהֵ֔ינוּ (נוּ) nu “our”

And to take the first-fruits of our land, and the first-fruits of every sort of tree, year by year, into the house of the Lord;

אַדְמָתֵ֗נוּ (נוּ) nu “our”

As well as the first of our sons and of our cattle, as it is recorded in the law, and the first lambs of our herds and of our flocks, which are to be taken to the house of our God, to the priests who are servants in the house of our God:

בָּנֵ֙ינוּ֙ (נוּ֙) nu “our”וּבְהֶמְתֵּ֔ינוּ (נוּ) nu “our”בְקָרֵ֜ינוּ (נוּ) nu “our”וְצֹאנֵ֗ינוּ (נוּ) nu “our”אֱלֹהֵ֔ינוּ (נוּ) nu “our”אֱלֹהֵֽינוּ׃ (נוּ) nu “our”

And that we would take the first of our rough meal, and our lifted offerings, and the fruit of every sort of tree, and wine and oil, to the priests, to the rooms of the house of our God; and the tenth of the produce of our land to the Levites; for they,

עֲרִיסֹתֵ֣ינוּ (נוּ) nu “our”וּ֠תְרוּמֹתֵינוּ (נוּ) nu “our”אֱלֹהֵ֔ינוּ (נוּ) nu “our”אַדְמָתֵ֖נוּ (נוּ) nu “our”עֲבֹדָתֵֽנוּ׃ (נוּ) nu “our”

And the priest, the son of Aaron, is to be with the Levites, when the Levites take the tenths: and the Levites are to take a tenth of the tenths into the house of our God, to the rooms, into the store-house;

אֱלֹהֵ֔ינוּ (נוּ) nu “our”