Others said, “We’ve had to mortgage our fields, our vineyards, and our homes in order to get some grain because of this famine.”
You must return their fields, their vineyards, their olive orchards, and their homes today. Also, you must return the interest on the money, grain, new wine, and olive oil you’ve been charging them.”
Some of them said, “We have large families! We need some grain ⌞if we are going⌟ to eat and stay alive.”
Others said, “We’ve had to borrow money to pay the king’s taxes on our fields and vineyards.
This is what you must do whenever there are poor Israelites in one of your cities in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.