Nehemiah 5:3

New American Bible - revised edition

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

Cross References

Nehemiah 5:11

Return to them this very day their fields, vineyards, olive groves, and houses, together with the interest on the money, the grain, the wine, and the oil that you have lent them.”

Nehemiah 5:2

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

Nehemiah 5:4

Still others said: “To pay the king’s tax we have borrowed money on our fields and vineyards.

Deuteronomy 15:7

If one of your kindred is in need in any community in the land which the Lord, your God, is giving you, you shall not harden your heart nor close your hand against your kin who is in need.