Nehemia 5:5

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Sekarang, walaupun kami ini sedarah sedaging dengan saudara-saudara sebangsa kami dan anak-anak kami sama dengan anak-anak mereka, namun kami terpaksa membiarkan anak-anak lelaki dan anak-anak perempuan kami menjadi budak dan sudah beberapa anak perempuan kami harus membiarkan diri dimiliki orang. Kami tidak dapat berbuat apa-apa, karena ladang dan kebun anggur kami sudah di tangan orang lain."

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Sekarang, walaupun kami ini sedarah sedaging dengan saudara-saudara sebangsa kami dan anak-anak kami sama dengan anak-anak mereka, namun kami terpaksa membiarkan anak-anak lelaki dan anak-anak perempuan kami menjadi budak dan sudah beberapa anak perempuan kami harus membiarkan diri dimiliki orang. Kami tidak dapat berbuat apa-apa, karena ladang dan kebun anggur kami sudah di tangan orang lain."

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Kendatilah daging darah kamipun seperti daging darah saudara kami juga dan anak laki-laki kamipun seperti anak laki-laki mereka itu; bahwasanya kami merendahkan anak kami laki-laki dan perempuan akan hamba beli, bahkan, dari pada anak perempuan kami adalah beberapa orang dalam kuasa orang lain, maka tiada kami dapat menebus dia, dan orang lain pula memeganglah segala bendang dan kebun anggur kami.

Contextual Overview

¹ And there arose a great complaynt of the people and their wyues against their brethre the Iewes. ² For there were some that saide, Our sonnes and daughters and we are very many: therefore wyll we take corne for them, that we may eate and liue. ³ Some also there were that saide: Let vs set our landes, vineyardes, and houses to pledge, and take vp corne in the dearth. ⁴ But some there were that saide: We haue borowed money for the kinges tribute, and that vpon our landes & vineyardes. ⁵ And now our fleshe is as the fleshe of our brethren, and our children as their children: and loe we bring into subiection our sonnes and our daughters as seruauntes, and some of our daughters are subdued vnto bondage alredie, and no strength is there in our handes to redeeme them, and other men haue our landes and vineyardes.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

our flesh: Genesis 37:27, Isaiah 58:7, James 2:5, James 2:6

we: Exodus 21:1-11, Leviticus 25:39-43, 2 Kings 4:1, Matthew 18:25

Reciprocal: Genesis 17:13 - bought Exodus 21:7 - sell Exodus 21:26 - General Leviticus 25:48 - General Deuteronomy 5:14 - thy manservant Esther 7:4 - But if we Job 24:9 - General Job 31:15 - Did not he Proverbs 22:7 - the borrower Proverbs 29:13 - meet Isaiah 50:1 - or which Ephesians 6:9 - ye Colossians 4:1 - give Revelation 18:13 - slaves

Cross-References

Genesis 3:19
In the sweatte of thy face shalt thou eate thy breade, tyll thou be turned agayne into the ground, for out of it wast thou taken: For dust thou art, and into dust shalt thou be turned agayne.

Genesis 5:7
And Seth lyued after he begat Enos eyght hundreth and seuen yeres, and begat sonnes and daughters.

Genesis 5:8
And all the dayes of Seth were nine hundreth & twelue yeres, and he dyed.

Genesis 5:10
And Enos lyued after he begate Kenan eyght hundreth & fiftie yeres, and begate sonnes and daughters.

Genesis 5:11
And all the dayes of Enos were nine hundreth & fyue yeres, and he dyed.

Genesis 5:12
Kenan lyued seuentie yeres, and begate Mahalaleel.

Genesis 5:14
And all the dayes of Kenan were nine hundreth and ten yeres, and he dyed.

Genesis 5:21
Henoch lyued sixtie and fiue yeres, & begate Methuselah.

Genesis 5:22
And Henoch walked with God after he begate Methuselah three hundreth yeres, and begate sonnes & daughters.

Genesis 5:32
Noah was fiue hundreth yere olde, & Noah begate Sem, Ham, & Iapheth.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren,.... We are of the same nature, nation, stock, and religion: our children as their children; are circumcised as they, and have a right to the same privileges in church and state:

and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and daughters to be servants; shall be obliged to it, unless relieved:

and some of our daughters are brought into bondage already; sold to be servants, as they might in case of the poverty of parents, Exodus 21:7, and some were sometimes taken to be bondmen in payment of their parents' debts, 2 Kings 4:1

neither is it in our power to redeem them, for other men have our lands and vineyards; as pledges for money borrowed.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The power of a father to sell his daughter into slavery is expressly mentioned in the Law Exodus 21:7. The power to sell a son appears from this passage. In either case, the sale held good for only six years, or until the next year of jubilee (see the marginal references).

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Nehemiah 5:5. We bring in to bondage our sons — The law permitted parents to sell their children in times of extreme necessity, Exodus 21:7.