Nehemiah 5:3 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³ There were also those who said, “We are having to pledge our fields, our vineyards, and our houses in order to get grain during the famine.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ 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

³ Also some said, We are mortgaging our lands, vineyards, and houses to buy grain because of the scarcity.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ 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

³ 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

³ 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

³ 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

Restore to them, this very day, their fields, their vineyards, their olive orchards, and their houses, and the interest on money, grain, wine, and oil that you have been exacting from them.”

Nehemiah 5:2

For there were those who said, “With our sons and our daughters, we are many; we must get grain, so that we may eat and stay alive.”

Nehemiah 5:4

And there were those who said, “We are having to borrow money on our fields and vineyards to pay the king’s tax.

Deuteronomy 15:7

“If there is among you anyone in need, a member of your community in any of your towns within the land that the Lord your God is giving you, do not be hard-hearted or tight-fisted toward your needy neighbor.