Nehemiah 5:1-5

¹About that time there was a great outcry from the people and their wives against their fellow Jews.

²Some were saying, “We and our sons and daughters are numerous. We must get grain in order to eat and stay alive.”

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

⁴Still others were saying, “We have borrowed money to pay the king’s tax on our fields and vineyards.

⁵We and our children are just like our countrymen and their children, yet we are subjecting our sons and daughters to slavery. Some of our daughters are already enslaved, but we are powerless to redeem them because our fields and vineyards belong to others.”

— Nehemiah 5:1-5

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Cross References for Nehemiah 5:1-5

• Ezra 4:13
• 2 Kings 4:1
• Leviticus 25:35-39
• Leviticus 25:39-43
• Psalm 128:2-4
• Isaiah 58:7
• Malachi 3:8-11
• Genesis 37:27
• Malachi 2:2
• Isaiah 5:7

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