• Nehemiah 5:5
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures

    • 5 Now we are of the same flesh and blood as our brothers,* and our children are just like their children; yet we have to subject our sons and daughters to slavery, and some of our daughters are already in slavery.+ But we are powerless to stop this, because our fields and our vineyards belong to others.”

  • Nehemiah 5:5
    The Bible in Living English

    • 5* And now our flesh is like our brothers’ flesh, our sons like theirs, and here we are reducing our sons and daughters to slavery, and some of our daughters have been enslaved, and we are helpless; and the aristocrats have our fields and vineyards.”

  • Nehemiah 5:5
    American Standard Version

    • 5 Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought into bondage already : neither is it in our power to help it; for other men have our fields and our vineyards.

  • Nehemiah 5:5
    The Emphasized Bible

    • 5 Now therefore as is the flesh of our brethren so is our flesh, as are their children so are our children. Yet lo! we are putting in subjection our sons and our daughters for bondservants, yea there are some of our daughters already trodden down, and we are powerless, and our fields and our vineyards belong to others.

  • Nehemiah 5:5
    King James Version

    • 5 Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought unto bondage already: neither is it in our power to redeem them; for other men have our lands and vineyards.