Nehemia 5:14

5:14 From the day that I was appointed ¹  governor ²  in the land of Judah, that is, from the twentieth year until the thirty-second year of King Artaxerxes – twelve years in all – neither I nor my relatives ³  ate the food allotted to the governor. ⁴ 

Nehemia 9:11

9:11 You split the sea before them, and they crossed through ⁵  the sea on dry ground! But you threw their pursuers ⁶  into the depths, like a stone into surging ⁷  waters.

Nehemia 10:31

10:31 We will not buy ⁸  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. ⁹ 

Nehemia 11:3

11:3 These are the provincial leaders ¹⁰  who settled in Jerusalem. (While other Israelites, the priests, the Levites, the temple attendants, and the sons of the servants of Solomon settled in the cities of Judah, each on his own property in their cities,

[5:14]  ¹ tc The BHS editors suggest reading צֻוֵּאתִי (tsuvve’ti, “and I was appointed”) rather than the reading of the MT, אֹתִי צִוָּה (tsivvah ’oti, “he appointed me”).

[5:14]  ² tc The translation reads with one medieval Hebrew MS פֶּחָה (pekhah, “governor”) rather than פֶּחָם (pekham, “their governor”) of the MT. One would expect the form with pronominal suffix to have a tav (ת) before the suffix.

[5:14]  ³ tn Heb “brothers.”

[5:14]  ⁴ tn Heb “the food of the governor.” Cf. v. 18.

[9:11]  ⁵ tn Heb “in the midst of.”

[9:11]  ⁶ tn Heb “those who pursued them.”

[9:11]  ⁷ tn Heb “mighty.”

[10:31]  ⁸ tn Heb “take.”

[10:31]  ⁹ tn Heb “debt of every hand,” an idiom referring to the hand that holds legally binding contractual agreements.

[11:3]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “the heads of the province.”