Return to them this very day their fields, their vineyards, their olive orchards, and their houses, and the hundredth of money, grain, wine, and oil which you have been exacting of them.”
Nehemiah 5:3 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI) There were also those who said, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our houses to get grain because of the famine.” More versionsKing 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. |
Return to them this very day their fields, their vineyards, their olive orchards, and their houses, and the hundredth of money, grain, wine, and oil which you have been exacting of them.”
For there were those who said, “With our sons and our daughters, we are many; let us get grain, that we may eat and keep alive.”
And there were those who said, “We have borrowed money for the king's tax upon our fields and our vineyards.
“If there is among you a poor man, one of your brethren, in any of your towns within your land which the Lord your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart or shut your hand against your poor brother,