Nehemiah 5:3 - New International Version (Anglicised)

³ Others were saying, ‘We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards and our homes to get grain during the famine.’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ Some also there were that said, We have mortgaged our lands, vineyards, and houses, that we might buy corn, because of the dearth.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ Also some said, We are mortgaging our lands, vineyards, and houses to buy grain because of the scarcity.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ Some also there were that said, We are mortgaging our fields, and our vineyards, and our houses: let us get grain, because of the dearth.

Common English Bible

³ Others said, “We have to mortgage our fields, our vineyards, and our houses in order to get grain during the famine.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ And there were those who were saying: "Let us offer up our fields and vineyards, and our houses, and then we may receive grain during the famine."

Nehemiah 5:3 Tagairtí Cros

Nehemiah 5:11

Give back to them immediately their fields, vineyards, olive groves and houses, and also the interest you are charging them – one per cent of the money, grain, new wine and olive oil.’

Nehemiah 5:2

Some were saying, ‘We and our sons and daughters are numerous; in order for us to eat and stay alive, we must get grain.’

Nehemiah 5:4

Still others were saying, ‘We have had to borrow money to pay the king’s tax on our fields and vineyards.

Deuteronomy 15:7

If anyone is poor among your fellow Israelites in any of the towns of the land that the Lord your God is giving you, do not be hard-hearted or tight-fisted towards them.