Nehemiah 5:3

Modern English Version

Others were saying, “We have mortgaged our fields, vineyards, and houses so that we might acquire grain because of hunger.”

Cross References

Nehemiah 5:11

Please restore to them, even this day, their fields, their vineyards, their olive groves, and their houses, along with one-hundredth of the money, the grain, the wine, and the oil that you had exacted from them.”

Nehemiah 5:2

Some were saying, “We and our sons and our daughters are many. Therefore, let us acquire grain so that we may eat and live.”

Nehemiah 5:4

Still others were saying, “We have borrowed money for the king’s tribute against the value of our fields and vineyards.

Deuteronomy 15:7

If there be among you a poor man, one of your brothers within any of your gates in your land which the Lord your God has given you, you must not harden your heart or shut your hand from your poor brother.