Nehemiah 5:3

The Scriptures 1998

And there were some who were saying, “We have mortgaged our lands and vineyards and houses. Let us buy grain because of the scarcity of food.”

Cross References

Nehemiah 5:11

“Please, give back to them, even today, their lands, their vineyards, their olive-trees, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the silver and of the grain, and of the new wine, and of the oil, that you have taken from them.”

Nehemiah 5:2

And there were some who were saying, “We, our sons, and our daughters are many. Let us get grain for them, and eat, and live.”

Nehemiah 5:4

And there were those who were saying, “We have borrowed silver for the sovereign’s tax on our lands and vineyards.

Deuteronomy 15:7

“When there is a poor man with you, one of your brothers, within any of the gates in your land which יהוה  your Elohim is giving you, do not harden your heart nor shut your hand from your poor brother,