Nehemiah 5:5

Modern English Version

Now our flesh is the same as the flesh of our countrymen. Our children are like their children, but we are subjugating our sons and our daughters as servants. Behold, some of our daughters are in bondage already, and we are powerless to do anything because our fields and vineyards belong to others.”

Cross References

Genesis 29:14

Laban said to him, “Surely you are my bone and my flesh.” And he stayed with him for a month.

Genesis 37:27

Come, let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and let us not lay our hand on him, for he is our brother and our own flesh.” So his brothers agreed.

2 Kings 4:1

Now one of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried to Elisha, “Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that your servant feared the Lord, but a creditor has come to take my two sons as slaves.”

Proverbs 22:7

The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is the slave of the lender.

Isaiah 50:1

Thus says the Lord: Where is the certificate of divorce by which I sent your mother away? Or to which of My creditors did I sell you? Behold, for your iniquities you were sold, and for your transgressions your mother was sent away.

Isaiah 58:7

Is it not to divide your bread with the hungry and bring the poor who are outcasts into your house? When you see the naked, to cover him and not hide yourself from your own flesh?

Matthew 18:25

But since he was not able to pay, his master ordered that he be sold with his wife, their children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.