SinaiNehemiah 5:4
American Standard Version
There were also that said, We have borrowed money for the king’s tribute upon our fields and our vineyards.
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Nehemiah 5:4 in other translations
There were also some who said, “We have borrowed money for the king’s tribute using our fields and our vineyards as collateral.
Nehemiah 5:4 in context
- 2For there were that said, We, our sons and our daughters, are many: let us get grain, that we may eat and live.
- 3Some also there were that said, We are mortgaging our fields, and our vineyards, and our houses: let us get grain, because of the dearth.
- 4There were also that said, We have borrowed money for the king’s tribute upon our fields and our vineyards.
- 5Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought into bondage already: neither is it in our power to help it; for other men have our fields and our vineyards.
- 6And I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words.