Nehemiah 5:3

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

There were also those who said, “We are having to pledge our fields, our vineyards, and our houses in order to get grain during the famine.”

Cross References

Nehemiah 5:11

Restore to them, this very day, their fields, their vineyards, their olive orchards, and their houses, and the interest on money, grain, wine, and oil that you have been exacting from them.”

Nehemiah 5:2

For there were those who said, “With our sons and our daughters, we are many; we must get grain, so that we may eat and stay alive.”

Nehemiah 5:4

And there were those who said, “We are having to borrow money on our fields and vineyards to pay the king’s tax.

Deuteronomy 15:7

“If there is among you anyone in need, a member of your community in any of your towns within the land that the Lord your God is giving you, do not be hard-hearted or tight-fisted toward your needy neighbor.