Nehemiah 5:3 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

³ Some also there were that said, We are mortgaging our fields, and our vineyards, and our houses: let us get corn, because of the dearth.

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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, I pray you, to them, even this day, their fields, their vineyards, their oliveyards, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and of the corn, the wine, and the oil, that ye exact of them.

Nehemiah 5:2

For there were that said, We, our sons and our daughters, are many: let us get corn, that we may eat and live.

Nehemiah 5:4

There were also that said, We have borrowed money for the king's tribute upon our fields and our vineyards.

Deuteronomy 15:7

If there be with thee a poor man, one of thy brethren, within any of thy gates in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother: