Nehemiah 5:4
World English Bible (WEB)
There were also some who said, “We have borrowed money for the king’s tribute using our fields and our vineyards as collateral.
In context
2 For there were some who said, “We, our sons and our daughters, are many. Let us get grain, that we may eat and live.”
3 There were also some who said, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our houses. Let us get grain, because of the famine.”
4 There were also some who said, “We have borrowed money for the king’s tribute using our fields and our vineyards as collateral.
5 Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children as their children. Behold, we bring our sons and our daughters into bondage to be servants, and some of our daughters have been brought into bondage. It is also not in our power to help it, because other men have our fields and our vineyards.”
6 I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words.
Nehemiah 5:4 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- There were also some who said, “We have borrowed money for the king’s tribute using our fields and our vineyards as collateral.
- KJV King James Version
- There were also that said, We have borrowed money for the king’s tribute, and that upon our lands and vineyards.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- Still others were saying, “We have borrowed money to pay the king’s tax on our fields and vineyards.
- ASV American Standard Version
- There were also that said, We have borrowed money for the king’s tribute upon our fields and our vineyards.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- And there are who are saying, 'We have borrowed money for the tribute of the king, [on] our fields, and our vineyards;
- DBY Darby Translation
- And there were that said, We have borrowed money for the king's tribute upon our fields and vineyards;
- WBS Webster Bible
- There were also that said, We have borrowed money for the king's tribute, and that upon our lands and vineyards.