Nehemiah 5:5

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Now our flesh is the same as that of our kindred; our children are the same as their children; and yet we are forcing our sons and daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters have been ravished; we are powerless, and our fields and vineyards now belong to others.”

Cross References

Genesis 29:14

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

Genesis 37:27

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

2 Kings 4:1

Now the wife of a member of the company of 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 children as slaves.”

Proverbs 22:7

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

Isaiah 50:1

Thus says the Lord: Where is your mother’s bill of divorce with which I dismissed her? Or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? No, because of your sins you were sold, and for your transgressions your mother was dismissed.

Isaiah 58:7

Is it not to share your bread with the hungry and bring the homeless poor into your house; when you see the naked, to cover them and not to hide yourself from your own kin?

Matthew 18:25

and, as he could not pay, the lord ordered him to be sold, together with his wife and children and all his possessions and payment to be made.