Nehemiah 5:3

New Century Version

Others were saying, “We are borrowing money against our fields, vineyards, and homes to get grain because there is not much food.”

Cross References

Nehemiah 5:11

Give back their fields, vineyards, olive trees, and houses right now. Also give back the extra amount you charged—the hundredth part of the money, grain, new wine, and oil.”

Nehemiah 5:2

Some of them were saying, “We have many sons and daughters in our families. To eat and stay alive, we need grain.”

Nehemiah 5:4

And still others were saying, “We are borrowing money to pay the king’s tax on our fields and vineyards.

Deuteronomy 15:7

If there are poor among you, in one of the towns of the land the Lord your God is giving you, do not be selfish or greedy toward them.