Nehemiah 5:3

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And there were some who said, We are giving our fields and our vine-gardens and our houses for debt: let us get grain because we are in need.

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  • Gen 47:15-25 : 15 And when all the money in Egypt and Canaan was gone, the Egyptians came to Joseph, and said, Give us bread; would you have us come to destruction before your eyes? for we have no more money. 16 And Joseph said, Give me your cattle; I will give you grain in exchange for your cattle if your money is all gone. 17 So they took their cattle to Joseph and he gave them bread in exchange for their horses and flocks and herds and asses, so all that year he gave them food in exchange for their cattle. 18 And when that year was ended, they came to him in the second year, and said, We may not keep it from our lord's knowledge that all our money is gone, and all the herds of cattle are my lord's; there is nothing more to give my lord but our bodies and our land; 19 Are we to come to destruction before your eyes, we and our land? take us and our land and give us bread; and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh; and give us seed so that we may have life and the land may not become waste. 20 So Joseph got all the land in Egypt for Pharaoh; for every Egyptian gave up his land in exchange for food, because of their great need; so all the land became Pharaoh's. 21 And as for the people, he made servants of them, town by town, from one end of Egypt to the other. 22 Only he did not take the land of the priests, for the priests had their food given them by Pharaoh, and having what Pharaoh gave them, they had no need to give up their land. 23 Then Joseph said to the people, I have made you and your land this day the property of Pharaoh; here is seed for you to put in your fields. 24 And when the grain is cut, you are to give a fifth part to Pharaoh, and four parts will be yours for seed and food, and for your families and your little ones. 25 And they said to him, Truly you have kept us from death; may we have grace in your eyes, and we will be Pharaoh's servants.
  • Lev 25:35-39 : 35 And if your brother becomes poor and is not able to make a living, then you are to keep him with you, helping him as you would a man from another country who is living among you. 36 Take no interest from him, in money or in goods, but have the fear of your God before you, and let your brother make a living among you. 37 Do not take interest on the money which you let him have or on the food which you give him. 38 I am the Lord your God, who took you out of the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan, that I might be your God. 39 And if your brother becomes poor and gives himself to you for money, do not make use of him like a servant who is your property;
  • Deut 15:7 : 7 If in any of your towns in the land which the Lord your God is giving you, there is a poor man, one of your countrymen, do not let your heart be hard or your hand shut to him;
  • Mal 3:8-9 : 8 Will a man keep back from God what is right? But you have kept back what is mine. But you say, What have we kept back from you? Tenths and offerings. 9 You are cursed with a curse; for you have kept back from me what is mine, even all this nation. 10 Let your tenths come into the store-house so that there may be food in my house, and put me to the test by doing so, says the Lord of armies, and see if I do not make the windows of heaven open and send down such a blessing on you that there is no room for it. 11 And on your account I will keep back the locusts from wasting the fruits of your land; and the fruit of your vine will not be dropped on the field before its time, says the Lord of armies

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Neh 5:4-12
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    90%

    4 And there were others who said, We have given up our fields and our vine-gardens to get money for the king's taxes.

    5 But our flesh is the same as the flesh of our countrymen, and our children as their children: and now we are giving our sons and daughters into the hands of others, to be their servants, and some of our daughters are servants even now: and we have no power to put a stop to it; for other men have our fields and our vine-gardens.

    6 And on hearing their outcry and what they said I was very angry.

    7 And after turning it over in my mind, I made a protest to the chiefs and the rulers, and said to them, Every one of you is taking interest from his countryman. And I got together a great meeting of protest.

    8 And I said to them, We have given whatever we were able to give, to make our brothers the Jews free, who were servants and prisoners of the nations: and would you now give up your brothers for a price, and are they to become our property? Then they said nothing, answering not a word.

    9 And I said, What you are doing is not good: is it not the more necessary for you to go in the fear of our God, because of the shame which the nations may put on us?

    10 Even I and my servants have been taking interest for the money and the grain we have let them have. So now, let us give up this thing.

    11 Give back to them this very day their fields, their vine-gardens, their olive-gardens, and their houses, as well as a hundredth part of the money and the grain and the wine and the oil which you have taken from them.

    12 Then they said, We will give them back, and take nothing for them; we will do as you say. Then I sent for the priests and made them take an oath that they would keep this agreement.

  • Neh 5:1-2
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    1 Then there was a great outcry from the people and their wives against their countrymen the Jews.

    2 For there were some who said, We, our sons and our daughters, are a great number: let us get grain, so that we may have food for our needs.

  • Lam 5:2-6
    5 verses
    74%

    2 Our heritage is given up to men of strange lands, our houses to those who are not our countrymen.

    3 We are children without fathers, our mothers are like widows.

    4 We give money for a drink of water, we get our wood for a price.

    5 Our attackers are on our necks: overcome with weariness, we have no rest.

    6 We have given our hands to the Egyptians and to the Assyrians so that we might have enough bread.

  • Gen 47:18-20
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    71%

    18 And when that year was ended, they came to him in the second year, and said, We may not keep it from our lord's knowledge that all our money is gone, and all the herds of cattle are my lord's; there is nothing more to give my lord but our bodies and our land;

    19 Are we to come to destruction before your eyes, we and our land? take us and our land and give us bread; and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh; and give us seed so that we may have life and the land may not become waste.

    20 So Joseph got all the land in Egypt for Pharaoh; for every Egyptian gave up his land in exchange for food, because of their great need; so all the land became Pharaoh's.

  • Lam 5:8-9
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    8 Servants are ruling over us, and there is no one to make us free from their hands.

    9 We put our lives in danger to get our bread, because of the sword of the waste land.

  • Amos 8:6
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    6 Getting the poor for silver, and him who is in need for the price of two shoes, and taking a price for the waste parts of the grain.

  • Jer 35:9
    70%

    9 Building no houses for ourselves, having no vine-gardens or fields or seed:

  • Neh 9:36-37
    2 verses
    70%

    36 Now, today, we are servants, and as for the land which you gave to our fathers, so that the produce of it and the good might be theirs, see, we are servants in it:

    37 And it gives much increase to the kings whom you have put over us because of our sins: and they have power over our bodies and over our cattle at their pleasure, and we are in great trouble.

  • Neh 10:31-32
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    31 And if the peoples of the lands come to do trade in goods or food on the Sabbath day, that we would do no trade with them on the Sabbath or on a holy day: and that in the seventh year we would take no payment from any debtor.

    32 And we made rules for ourselves, taxing ourselves a third of a shekel every year for the upkeep of the house of our God;

  • Gen 47:15
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    15 And when all the money in Egypt and Canaan was gone, the Egyptians came to Joseph, and said, Give us bread; would you have us come to destruction before your eyes? for we have no more money.

  • Isa 5:8-9
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    8 Cursed are those who are joining house to house, and putting field to field, till there is no more living-space for any but themselves in all the land!

    9 The Lord of armies has said to me secretly, Truly, numbers of great and fair houses will be waste, with no one living in them.

  • Jer 32:43
    69%

    43 And there will be trading in fields in this land of which you say, It is a waste, without man or beast; it is given into the hands of the Chaldaeans.

  • Gen 43:1
    69%

    1 And when the grain which they had got in Egypt was all used up, their father said to them, Go again and get us a little food.

  • Amos 5:11
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    11 So because the poor man is crushed under your feet, and you take taxes from him of grain: you have made for yourselves houses of cut stone, but you will not take your rest in them; the fair vine-gardens planted by your hands will not give you wine.

  • Neh 5:16
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    16 And I kept on with the work of this wall, and we got no land for ourselves: and all my servants were helping with the work.

  • Acts 7:11
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    11 Now there was no food to be had in all Egypt and Canaan, and there was great trouble: and our fathers were not able to get food.

  • Josh 9:12
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    12 This bread which we have with us for our food, we took warm and new from our houses when starting on our journey to you; but now see, it has become dry and broken up.

  • Joel 1:17
    68%

    17 The grains have become small and dry under the spade; the store-houses are made waste, the grain-stores are broken down; for the grain is dry and dead.

  • Neh 10:37
    68%

    37 And that we would take the first of our rough meal, and our lifted offerings, and the fruit of every sort of tree, and wine and oil, to the priests, to the rooms of the house of our God; and the tenth of the produce of our land to the Levites; for they, the Levites, take a tenth in all the towns of our ploughed land.

  • Gen 31:15
    68%

    15 Are we not as people from a strange country to him? for he took a price for us and now it is all used up.

  • Gen 41:57
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    57 And all lands sent to Egypt, to Joseph, to get grain, for the need was great over all the earth.

  • Gen 42:5
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    5 And the sons of Israel came with all the others to get grain: for they were very short of food in the land of Canaan.

  • Job 5:5
    67%

    5 Their produce is taken by him who has no food, and their grain goes to the poor, and he who is in need of water gets it from their spring.

  • Gen 47:13
    67%

    13 Now there was no food to be had in all the land, so that all Egypt and Canaan were wasted from need of food.

  • Jer 32:15
    67%

    15 For the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said, There will again be trading in houses and fields and vine-gardens in this land.

  • Lev 25:20
    67%

    20 And if you say, Where will our food come from in the seventh year, when we may not put in seed, or get in the increase

  • 1 Sam 2:5
    67%

    5 Those who were full are offering themselves as servants for bread; those who were in need are at rest; truly, she who had no children has become the mother of seven; and she who had a family is wasted with sorrow.

  • Joel 1:10
    67%

    10 The fields are wasted, the land has become dry; for the grain is wasted, the new wine is kept back, the oil is poor.

  • Ezra 5:9
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    9 Then we said to the men responsible, who gave you authority for the building of this house and these walls?

  • 2 Chr 29:9
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    9 For see, our fathers have been put to death with the sword, and our sons and daughters and wives have been taken away prisoners because of this.