Nehemiah 5:3

A Conservative Version

There were some also who said, We are mortgaging our fields, and our vineyards, and our houses. Let us get grain because of the dearth.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 15:7

If there be with thee a poor man, one of thy brothers, within any of thy gates in thy land which LORD thy God gives thee, thou shall not harden thy heart, nor shut thy hand from thy poor brother,

Nehemiah 5:2

For there were who said, We, our sons and our daughters, are many. Let us get grain that we may eat and live.

Nehemiah 5:4

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

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 grain, the new wine, and the oil, that ye exact of them.