Nehemiah 5:3
Good News Translation
Others said, "We have had to mortgage our fields and vineyards and houses to get enough grain to keep us from starving."

New Revised Standard Version
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.”

Contemporary English Version
Others said, "During the famine we even had to mortgage our fields, vineyards, and homes to them in order to buy grain."

New American Bible
Others said: “We are forced to pawn our fields, our vineyards, and our houses, that we may have grain during the famine.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And there were some that said: Let us mortgage our lands, and our vineyards, and our houses, and let us take corn because of the famine.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And there were some that said: Let us mortgage our lands, and our vineyards, and our houses, and let us take corn because of the famine.

mortgaged

Genesis 47:15-25 And when the buyers wanted money, all Egypt came to Joseph, saying: Give us bread: why should we die in thy presence, having now no money? . . .

Leviticus 25:35-39 If thy brother be impoverished, and weak of hand, and thou receive him as a stranger and sojourner, and he live with thee: . . .

Deuteronomy 15:7 If one of thy brethren that dwelleth within thy gates of thy city in the land which the Lord thy God will give thee, come to poverty: thou shalt not harden thy heart, nor close thy hand,

because

Malachi 3:8-11 Shall a man afflict God, for you afflict me. And you have said: Wherein do we afflict thee? in tithes and in firstfruits. . . .

Context
Nehemiah Defends the Oppressed
2And there were some that said: Our sons and our daughters are very many: let us take up corn for the price of them, and let us eat and live. 3And there were some that said: Let us mortgage our lands, and our vineyards, and our houses, and let us take corn because of the famine.4And others said: Let us borrow money for the king's tribute, and let us give up our fields and vineyards:…
Cross References
Nehemiah 5:2
And there were some that said: Our sons and our daughters are very many: let us take up corn for the price of them, and let us eat and live.

Nehemiah 5:4
And others said: Let us borrow money for the king's tribute, and let us give up our fields and vineyards:

Nehemiah 5:2
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