Nehemiah 5:5

Julia E. Smith Translation 1876

And now according to the flesh of our brethren, our flesh; as their sons, our sons: and behold, we subdue our sons and our daughters for servants, and there is from our daughters being subdued: and not to the strength of our hand and our fields and our vineyards to others.

Cross References

Genesis 29:14

And Laban will say to him, Surely my bone and my flesh art thou: and he will dwell with him a month of days.

Genesis 37:27

Come, and we will sell him to the Ishmaelites, and our hand shall not be upon him; for he our brother, our flesh: and his brethren will hear.

2 Kings 4:1

And one woman from the wives of the sons of the prophets cried to Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband died, and thou knewest that thy servant was fearing Jehovah: and the creditor came to take my two children for servants.

Proverbs 22:7

The rich one will rule over the poor, and he borrowing, a servant to the man lending.

Isaiah 50:1

Thus said Jehovah, Where this writing of cutting off of your mother which I sent her away? or which of my creditors whom I sold you to him? Behold, in your iniquities ye sold yourselves, and in your transgressions your mother was sent away.

Isaiah 58:7

Is it not to break thy bread to the hungry, and thou shalt bring the wandering poor to thy house? when thou shalt see the naked and cover him; and thou shalt not hide from thy flesh.

Matthew 18:25

And he not having to give back, his lord ordered him to be sold, and his wife and his children, and all which he had also to be given back.