Nehemiah 5:4 - Modern English Version

⁴ Still others were saying, “We have borrowed money for the king’s tribute against the value of our fields and vineyards.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ Others said, We have borrowed money on our fields and vineyards to pay the [Persian] king's heavy tax.

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

⁴ Still others said, “We have had to borrow money against our fields and vineyards in order to pay the king’s tax.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ And others were saying: "Let us borrow money for the tribute of the king, and let us surrender our fields and vineyards."

Nehemiah 5:4 Tagairtí Cros

1 Kings 9:21

the descendants of those who were left in the land and whom the people of Israel were not able to utterly destroy, were conscripted by Solomon for slave labor to this day.

Ezra 4:13

“Be it known now to the king, that, if this city is rebuilt and the walls set up again, then they will not pay toll, tribute, and custom, and the revenue of the kings will be impacted.

Ezra 4:20

There have also been mighty kings over Jerusalem, who have ruled over the whole province Beyond the River, and toll, tribute, and custom was paid to them.

Ezra 7:24

Also we are informing you that with regard to all the priests, Levites, singers, doorkeepers, temple servants, or other servants of this house of God, it is not permitted to impose toll, tribute, or custom on them.

Nehemiah 5:3

Others were saying, “We have mortgaged our fields, vineyards, and houses so that we might acquire grain because of hunger.”

Nehemiah 9:37

because its abundant produce belongs to the kings whom You have set over us due to our sins. They have control over our bodies and over our livestock, as they please. We are in great distress.”

Proverbs 22:7

The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is the slave of the lender.

Joshua 16:10

They did not drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer, so the Canaanites live in the midst of Ephraim until this day performing heavy labor as slaves.