Nehemiah 6:4
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New International Version (©2011)
Four times they sent me the same message, and each time I gave them the same answer.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Four times they sent the same message, and each time I gave the same reply.

English Standard Version (©2001)
And they sent to me four times in this way, and I answered them in the same manner.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
They sent messages to me four times in this manner, and I answered them in the same way.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Yet they sent unto me four times after this sort; and I answered them after the same manner.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Four times they sent me the same proposal, and I gave them the same reply.

International Standard Version (©2012)
They sent me this message four times, and I answered them the same way.

NET Bible (©2006)
They contacted me four times in this way, and I responded the same way each time.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
They sent the same message to me four times, and I answered them the same way.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Yet they sent unto me four times in this way; and I answered them after the same manner.

American King James Version
Yet they sent to me four times after this sort; and I answered them after the same manner.

American Standard Version
And they sent unto me four times after this sort; and I answered them after the same manner.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they sent to me according to this word, four times: and I answered them after the same manner.

Darby Bible Translation
And they sent to me four times after this sort; and I answered them in the same manner.

English Revised Version
And they sent unto me four times after this sort; and I answered them after the same manner.

Webster's Bible Translation
Yet they sent to me four times after this sort; and I answered them after the same manner.

World English Bible
They sent to me four times after this sort; and I answered them the same way.

Young's Literal Translation
and they send unto me, according to this word, four times, and I return them word according to this word.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Yet they sent unto me four times after this sort,.... Being very desirous of getting him into their hands, and therefore were very pressing and importunate:

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Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament

They sent to him four times in the same manner (הזּה כּדּבר, comp. 2 Samuel 15:6), and Nehemiah gave them the same answer.

Geneva Study Bible

Yet they sent unto me four times after this sort; and I answered them after the same manner.

Wesley's Notes

6:4 Four times, and c. - We must never be overcome by the greatest importunity, to do anything ill or imprudent: but when we are attacked with the same temptation, still resist it with the same reason and resolution.

Nehemiah 6:4 Parallel Commentaries
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Sanballat's Threats and Conspiracy
…3And I sent messengers to them, saying, I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down: why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you? 4Yet they sent to me four times after this sort; and I answered them after the same manner. 5Then sent Sanballat his servant to me in like manner the fifth time with an open letter in his hand; …

Nehemiah 6:3 so I sent messengers to them with this reply: "I am carrying on a great project and cannot go down. Why should the work stop while I leave it and go down to you?"
Nehemiah 6:5 Then, the fifth time, Sanballat sent his aide to me with the same message, and in his hand was an unsealed letter