13For he had taken money, that I being afraid should do this thing, and sin, and they might have some evil to upbraid me withal.


In Context

10 And I went into the house of Samaia the son of Delaia, the son of Metabeel privately. And he said: Let us consult together in the house of God in the midst of the temple: and let us shut the doors of the temple, for they will come to kill thee, and in the night they will come to slay thee.

11 And I said: Should such a man as I Bee? and who is there that being as I am, would go into the temple, to save his life? I will not go in.

12 And I understood that God had not sent him, but that he had spoken to me as if he had been prophesying, and Tobias, and Sanaballat had hired him.

13 For he had taken money, that I being afraid should do this thing, and sin, and they might have some evil to upbraid me withal.

14 Remember me, O Lord, for Tobias and Sanaballat, according to their works of this kind: and Noadias the prophet, and the rest of the prophets that would have put me in fear.

15 But the wall was finished the five and twentieth day of the month of Elul, in two and fifty days.

Nehemiah 6:13 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

6:13Therefore [was] he hired, that I should be afraid, and do so, and sin, and [that] they might have [matter] for an evil report, that they might reproach me.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

6:13He had been hired to intimidate me so that I would commit a sin by doing this, and then they would give me a bad name to discredit me.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

6:13For this cause was he hired, that I should be afraid, and do so, and sin, and that they might have matter for an evil report, that they might reproach me.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

6:13Therefore was he hired, that I should be afraid, and do so, and sin, and that they might have wherewith to spread an evil report, that they might reproach me.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

6:13For this cause was he hired, that I should be afraid, and do so, and sin, and that they might have matter for an evil report, that they might reproach me.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

6:13Therefore was he hired, that I should be afraid, and do so, and sin, and that they might have matter for an evil report, that they might reproach me.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

6:13He hired so that I would be afraid, do so, and sin, and that they might have material for an evil report, that they might reproach me.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

6:13so that he is an hireling, that I may fear and do so, and I had sinned, and it had been to them for an evil name that they may reproach me.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

6:13Therefore was he hired, that I should be afraid, and do so, and sin, and that they might have matter for an evil report, that they might reproach me.