Rashi, on Neh 5:8

“And I said to them: We, as you know, have redeemed according to our ability our brethren the Jews, that were sold to the Gentiles: and will you then sell your brethren, for us to redeem them? And they held their peace, and found not what to answer.”

“And I said to them And so I said to them: We already bought our Jewish brethren who were in captivity from the heathens to whom they were sold. with as much as we could afford with as much money as was in our hands. and you too And you too will sell to the heathens your brethren who are subjected to you as slaves? and they will be sold to us And the result will be that they will be sold to us by the heathens (and if so, why should you sell them, since we will be compelled to redeem them? This is found in certain editions). and they remained silent They were silent and ashamed, and they did not know what to answer.”

Hebrew and Aramaic words are the commentator’s citations of the sacred text; the English translation that follows each is the translator’s.

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.