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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Nehemiah 5:4 Catholic Bible: Still others said, "We had to borrow money to pay the royal tax on our fields and vineyards. </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/nehemiah/5-4.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/nehemiah/5-4.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/nehemiah/5-4.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/nehemiah/1.htm">Nehemiah</a> > <a href="/gntd/nehemiah/5.htm">Chapter 5</a> > Verse 4</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../nehemiah/5-3.htm" title="Nehemiah 5:3">◄</a> Nehemiah 5:4 <a href="../nehemiah/5-5.htm" title="Nehemiah 5:5">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/nehemiah/5.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/nehemiah/5.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />Still others said, "We had to borrow money to pay the royal tax on our fields and vineyards. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/nehemiah/5.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />And there were those who said, “We are having to borrow money on our fields and vineyards to pay the king’s tax.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/nehemiah/5.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />Then others said, "We had to borrow money from those in power to pay the government tax on our fields and vineyards. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/nehemiah/5.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />Still others said: “To pay the king’s tax we have borrowed money on our fields and vineyards.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/nehemiah/5.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />And others said: Let us borrow money for the king's tribute, and let us give up our fields and vineyards:<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">And others said: Let us borrow money for the king's tribute, and let us give up our fields and vineyards:</p><p class="hdg">the king's tribute</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../nehemiah/9-37.htm">Nehemiah 9:37</a> And the fruits thereof grow up for the kings, whom thou hast set over us for our sins, and they have dominion over our bodies, and over our beasts, according to their will, and we are in great tribulation.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../deuteronomy/28-47.htm">Deuteronomy 28:47,48</a> Because thou didst not serve the Lord thy God with joy and gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things: . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../joshua/16-10.htm">Joshua 16:10</a> And the children of Ephraim slew not the Chanaanite, who dwelt in Gazer: and the Chanaanite dwelt in the midst of Ephraim until this day, paying tribute.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_kings/9-21.htm">1 Kings 9:21</a> Their children, that were left in the land; to wit, such as the children of Israel had not been able to destroy, Solomon made tributary unto this day.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../ezra/4-13.htm">Ezra 4:13,20</a> And now be it known to the king, that if this city be built up, and the walls thereof repaired, they will not pay tribute nor toll, nor yearly revenues, and this loss will fall upon the kings. . . . </p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/nehemiah/5.htm">Nehemiah Defends the Oppressed</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">3</span>And there were some that said: Let us mortgage our lands, and our vineyards, and our houses, and let us take corn because of the famine. <span class="reftext">4</span><span class="highl">And others said: Let us borrow money for the king's tribute, and let us give up our fields and vineyards:</span><span class="reftext">5</span>And now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren: and our children as their children. Behold we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters, and some of our daughters are bondwomen already, neither have we wherewith to redeem them, and our fields and our vineyards other men possess.…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../ezra/4-13.htm">Ezra 4:13</a></span><br />And now be it known to the king, that if this city be built up, and the walls thereof repaired, they will not pay tribute nor toll, nor yearly revenues, and this loss will fall upon the kings.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../ezra/7-24.htm">Ezra 7:24</a></span><br />We give you also to understand concerning all the priests, and the Levites, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nathinites, and ministers of the house of this God, that you have no authority to impose toll or tribute, or custom upon them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../nehemiah/5-3.htm">Nehemiah 5:3</a></span><br />And there were some that said: Let us mortgage our lands, and our vineyards, and our houses, and let us take corn because of the famine.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><div class="vheading2">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/2_kings/4-3.htm">Borrow</a> <a href="/2_kings/6-5.htm">Borrowed</a> <a href="/nehemiah/5-3.htm">Fields</a> <a href="/nehemiah/3-25.htm">King's</a> <a href="/nehemiah/5-3.htm">Lands</a> <a href="/ezra/7-17.htm">Money</a> <a href="/nehemiah/5-3.htm">Others</a> <a href="/ezra/4-13.htm">Pay</a> <a href="/ezra/7-24.htm">Tax</a> <a href="/ezra/7-24.htm">Tribute</a> <a href="/nehemiah/5-3.htm">Vine-Gardens</a> <a href="/nehemiah/5-3.htm">Vineyards</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/psalms/37-21.htm">Borrow</a> <a href="/jeremiah/15-10.htm">Borrowed</a> <a href="/nehemiah/5-5.htm">Fields</a> <a href="/nehemiah/6-6.htm">King's</a> <a href="/nehemiah/5-5.htm">Lands</a> <a href="/nehemiah/5-10.htm">Money</a> <a href="/nehemiah/8-12.htm">Others</a> <a href="/esther/3-2.htm">Pay</a> <a href="/esther/10-1.htm">Tax</a> <a href="/esther/10-1.htm">Tribute</a> <a href="/nehemiah/5-11.htm">Vine-Gardens</a> <a href="/nehemiah/5-5.htm">Vineyards</a><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/nehemiah/5-4.htm">Nehemiah 5:4 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/nehemiah/5-4.htm">Nehemiah 5:4 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/nehemiah/5-4.htm">Nehemiah 5:4 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/nehemiah/5-4.htm">Nehemiah 5:4 NASB</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/nehemiah/5-4.htm">Nehemiah 5:4 Bible Apps</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/nehemiah/5-4.htm">Nehemiah 5:4 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/nehemiah/5-4.htm">Nehemiah 5:4 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/nehemiah/5-4.htm">Nehemiah 5:4 French Bible</a><br /><a href="//bibeltext.com/nehemiah/5-4.htm">Nehemiah 5:4 German Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Alphabetical: Also and borrow borrowed fields for had have king's money on others our pay said saying Still tax the there those to vineyards We were who<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="https://biblehub.com/nehemiah/5-4.htm">OT History: Nehemiah 5:4 There were also that said We have (Neh Ne) Bible Study Resources, Dictionary, Concordance and Search Tools</a><br /><br /><div align="center"><a href="/catholic/">Catholic Bible</a><br /><br /><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../nehemiah/5-3.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Nehemiah 5:3"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Nehemiah 5:3" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../nehemiah/5-5.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Nehemiah 5:5"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Nehemiah 5:5" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><div align="center" style="background-color:#f7f7f7"><br /><br /><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"><script async src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>  <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="8261988112"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); 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