Nehemiah 5:3

Contemporary English Version 1995

Others said, “During the famine we even had to mortgage our fields, vineyards, and homes to them in order to buy grain.”

Cross References

Deuteronomy 15:7

After the Lord your God gives land to each of you, there may be poor Israelites in the town where you live. If there are, then don't be mean and selfish with your money.

Nehemiah 5:2

and said, “We have large families, and it takes a lot of grain merely to keep us alive.”

Nehemiah 5:4

Then others said, “We had to borrow money from those in power to pay the government tax on our fields and vineyards.

Nehemiah 5:11

Now give back the fields, vineyards, olive orchards, and houses you have taken and also the interest you have been paid.”