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Nehemiah 5:2-4
Contemporary English Version
Nehemiah 5:2-4
Contemporary English Version
2 and said, “We have large families, and it takes a lot of grain merely to keep us alive.”
3 Others said, “During the famine we even had to mortgage our fields, vineyards, and homes to them in order to buy grain.”
4 Then others said, “We had to borrow money from those in power to pay the government tax on our fields and vineyards.
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