Nehemiah 5:2

New American Bible - revised edition

Some said: “We are forced to pawn our sons and daughters in order to get grain to eat that we may live.”

Cross References

Genesis 41:57

Indeed, the whole world came to Egypt to Joseph to buy grain, for famine had gripped the whole world.

Genesis 42:2

He went on, “I hear that grain is for sale in Egypt. Go down there and buy some for us, that we may stay alive and not die.”

Genesis 43:8

Then Judah urged his father Israel: “Let the boy go with me, that we may be off and on our way if you and we and our children are to keep from starving to death.

Genesis 47:19

Why should we and our land perish before your very eyes? Take us and our land in exchange for food, and we will become Pharaoh’s slaves and our land his property; only give us seed, that we may survive and not perish, and that our land may not turn into a waste.”

2 Kings 4:1

A certain woman, the widow of one of the guild prophets, cried out to Elisha: “My husband, your servant, is dead. You know that he revered the Lord, yet now his creditor has come to take my two children into servitude.”

Nehemiah 5:3

Others said: “We are forced to pawn our fields, our vineyards, and our houses, that we may have grain during the famine.”

Haggai 1:6

You have sown much, but have brought in little; you have eaten, but have not been satisfied; You have drunk, but have not become intoxicated; you have clothed yourselves, but have not been warmed; And the hired worker labors for a bag full of holes.

Malachi 2:2

And if you do not take to heart giving honor to my name, says the Lord of hosts, I will send a curse upon you and your blessing I will curse. In fact, I have already cursed it, because you do not take it to heart.

Deuteronomy 23:19

You shall not offer a prostitute’s fee or a dog’s pay as any kind of votive offering in the house of the Lord, your God; both these things are an abomination to the Lord, your God.