4There were also some who said, |We have borrowed money for the king's tribute using our fields and our vineyards as collateral.


In Context

1 Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brothers the Jews.

2 For there were that said, |We, our sons and our daughters, are many. Let us get grain, that we may eat and live.|

3 Some also there were that said, |We are mortgaging our fields, and 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 into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters have been brought into bondage. Neither is it in our power to help it; for 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 Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:4There were also that said, We have borrowed money for the king’s tribute, [and that upon] our lands and vineyards.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

5:4Still others were saying, "We have had to borrow money to pay the king's tax on our fields and vineyards.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

5:4And others said: Let us borrow money for the king's tribute, and let us give up our fields and vineyards:

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

5:4There were also that said, We have borrowed money for the king's tribute upon our fields and our vineyards.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:4And there were that said, We have borrowed money for the king's tribute upon our fields and vineyards;

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

5:4There were also that said, We have borrowed money for the king's tribute upon our fields and our vineyards.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:4There were also that said, We have borrowed money for the king's tribute, and that upon our lands and vineyards.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

5:4And there are who are saying, 'We have borrowed money for the tribute of the king, on our fields, and our vineyards;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:4There were also that said, We have borrowed money for the king's tribute, and that on our lands and vineyards.