Nehemiah 5:3

English Standard Version 2016

There were also those who said, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our houses to get grain because of the famine.”

Cross References

Deuteronomy 15:7

“If among you, one of your brothers should become poor, in any of your towns within your land that the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not harden your heart or shut your hand against your poor brother,

Nehemiah 5:2

For there were those who said, “With our sons and our daughters, we are many. So let us get grain, that we may eat and keep alive.”

Nehemiah 5:4

And there were those who said, “We have borrowed money for the king’s tax on our fields and our vineyards.

Nehemiah 5:11

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