Nehemiah 5:3
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Others were saying, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our homes to get grain during the famine.””
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“Others were saying, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our homes to get grain during the famine.””
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Some also there were that said, We have mortgaged our lands, vineyards, and houses, that we might buy corn, because of the dearth.”
King James Version · Public Domain“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.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“And there are who are saying, `Our fields, and our vineyards, and our houses, we are pledging, and we receive corn for the famine.'”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Nehemiah 5:3 — 6 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 47:15When the money from the lands of Egypt and Canaan was gone, all the Egyptians came to Joseph and said, “Give us food. Why should we die before your eyes? For our funds have run out!”
- Leviticus 25:35Now if your countryman becomes destitute and cannot support himself among you, then you are to help him as you would a foreigner or stranger, so that he can continue to live among you.
- Leviticus 25:36Do not take any interest or profit from him, but fear your God, that your countryman may live among you.
- Deuteronomy 15:7If there is a poor man among your brothers within any of the gates in the land that the LORD your God is giving you, then you are not to harden your heart or shut your hand from your poor brother.
- Nehemiah 5:11Please restore to them immediately their fields, vineyards, olive groves, and houses, along with the percentage of the money, grain, new wine, and oil that you have been assessing them.”
- Malachi 3:8Will a man rob God? Yet you are robbing Me! But you ask, ‘How do we rob You?’ In tithes and offerings.
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