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Nehemiah 5:2-4
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2 There were those who said, “With our sons and daughters, we are many. We must obtain[a] grain in order to eat and stay alive.” 3 There were others who said, “We are putting up our fields, our vineyards, and our houses as collateral in order to obtain grain during the famine.” 4 Then there were those who said, “We have borrowed money to pay our taxes to the king[b] on our fields and our vineyards.

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Footnotes

  1. Nehemiah 5:2 tn Heb “take” (so also in v. 3).
  2. Nehemiah 5:4 tn Heb “for the tax of the king.”
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