Nehemiah 5:8

Expanded Bible

⁸ I said to them, “·As much as possible [To the best of our ability], we have ·bought freedom for [redeemed] our fellow Jews who had been sold to ·foreigners [^Lthe Gentiles]. Now you are selling your fellow Jews to us [^Cthe creditors were selling their fellow Jews into slavery, requiring Nehemiah and others to buy them back]!” ·The leaders [^LThey] were ·quiet [silent] and ·had nothing [^Lcouldn’t find a word] to say.