Nehemiah 5:4
5:4 Then there were those who said, “We have borrowed money to pay our taxes to the king 1 on our fields and our vineyards.
Nehemiah 5:10
5:10 Even I and my relatives 2 and my associates 3 are lending them money and grain. But let us abandon this practice of seizing collateral! 4
1 tn Heb “for the tax of the king.”
2 tn Heb “brothers.”
3 tn Heb “lads.”
4 tn Heb “this debt.” This expression is a metonymy of association: “debt” refers to the seizure of the collateral of the debt.