Nehemiah 5:3

Bible in Basic English 1965

And there were some who said, We are giving our fields and our vine-gardens and our houses for debt: let us get grain because we are in need.

Cross References

Nehemiah 5:11

Give back to them this very day their fields, their vine-gardens, their olive-gardens, and their houses, as well as a hundredth part of the money and the grain and the wine and the oil which you have taken from them.

Nehemiah 5:2

For there were some who said, We, our sons and our daughters, are a great number: let us get grain, so that we may have food for our needs.

Nehemiah 5:4

And there were others who said, We have given up our fields and our vine-gardens to get money for the king's taxes.

Deuteronomy 15:7

If in any of your towns in the land which the Lord your God is giving you, there is a poor man, one of your countrymen, do not let your heart be hard or your hand shut to him;