Nehemiah 5:3 - The Scriptures 2009

And there were some who were saying, “We have mortgaged our lands and vineyards and houses. Let us buy grain because of the scarcity of food.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

Some also there were that said, We have mortgaged our lands, vineyards, and houses, that we might buy corn, because of the dearth.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Also some said, We are mortgaging our lands, vineyards, and houses to buy grain because of the scarcity.

American Standard Version (1901)

Some also there were that said, We are mortgaging our fields, and our vineyards, and our houses: let us get grain, because of the dearth.

Common English Bible

Others said, “We have to mortgage our fields, our vineyards, and our houses in order to get grain during the famine.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

And there were those who were saying: "Let us offer up our fields and vineyards, and our houses, and then we may receive grain during the famine."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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.

Nehemiah 5:3 Cross References

Nehemiah 5:11

“Please, give back to them, even today, their lands, their vineyards, their olive-trees, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the silver and of the grain, and of the new wine, and of the oil, that you have taken from them.”

Nehemiah 5:2

And there were some who were saying, “We, our sons, and our daughters are many. Let us get grain for them, and eat, and live.”

Nehemiah 5:4

And there were those who were saying, “We have borrowed silver for the sovereign’s tax on our lands and vineyards.

Deuteronomy 15:7

“When there is a poor man with you, one of your brothers, within any of the gates in your land which יהוה your Elohim is giving you, do not harden your heart nor shut your hand from your poor brother,