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2 For there were those who said, Our sons and our daughters and our brothers are many; therefore let us purchase grain that we may eat and live. 3 There were also those who said, We are going to sell our fields, our houses, and our vineyards that we may purchase grain during the famine, that we may live. 4 There were those who said, Let us borrow money from the king's tribute, and work our fields and our vineyards, that we may live. 5 And there were also those who said, Now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children are as their children; and, lo, we are compelling our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are already compelled to become maidservants; and yet they do not raise their hands in protest before God; and our fields, our vineyards, and our goods are given for other men. Nehemiah 5:2-5, Lamsa Bible. Public domain.
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