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Nehemiah 5:4

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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

Context
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.



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