Nehemiah 5:3

KJV1611 – Modern English

Others said, We have mortgaged our lands, vineyards, and houses to buy grain because of the famine.

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  • Gen 47:15-25 : 15 And when money failed in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph, and said, Give us bread: for why should we die in your presence? for the money fails. 16 And Joseph said, Give your cattle; and I will give you bread for your cattle, if money fails. 17 And they brought their cattle to Joseph: and Joseph gave them bread in exchange for horses, and for the flocks, and for the cattle of the herds, and for the donkeys: and he fed them with bread for all their cattle for that year. 18 When that year ended, they came to him the second year, and said to him, We will not hide it from my lord, that our money is spent; my lord also has our herds of cattle; there is nothing left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies and our lands: 19 Why shall we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh: and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, that the land be not desolate. 20 And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine prevailed over them: so the land became Pharaoh's. 21 As for the people, he moved them to cities from one end of the borders of Egypt to the other end. 22 Only the land of the priests he did not buy; for the priests had a portion assigned them by Pharaoh, and ate their portion which Pharaoh gave them: therefore they did not sell their lands. 23 Then Joseph said to the people, Behold, I have bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh: here is seed for you, and you shall sow the land. 24 And it shall come to pass in the harvest, that you shall give a fifth part to Pharaoh, and four parts shall be your own, for seed of the field, and for your food, and for them of your households, and for food for your little ones. 25 And they said, You have saved our lives: let us find favor in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's servants.
  • Lev 25:35-39 : 35 And if your brother becomes poor, and falls into decay with you; then you shall relieve him: yes, though he is a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with you. 36 Take no usury from him, or increase; but fear your God; that your brother may live with you. 37 You shall not give him your money upon usury, nor lend him your food for increase. 38 I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God. 39 And if your brother who dwells by you becomes poor, and is sold to you; you shall not compel him to serve as a bondservant:
  • Deut 15:7 : 7 If there is among you a poor man of one of your brothers within any of your gates in your land which the LORD your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart nor shut your hand from your poor brother.
  • Mal 3:8-9 : 8 Will a man rob God? Yet you have robbed me. But you say, 'In what way have we robbed you?' In tithes and offerings. 9 You are cursed with a curse, for you have robbed me, even this whole nation. 10 Bring all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and try me now in this, says the LORD of hosts, if I will not open for you the windows of heaven, and pour out for you a blessing, that there will not be room enough to receive it. 11 And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; nor shall your vine cast its fruit before its time in the field, says the LORD of hosts.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Neh 5:4-12
    9 verses
    90%

    4There were also those who said, We have borrowed money for the king's tax, against our lands and vineyards.

    5Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and indeed, we bring into bondage our sons and daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are already in bondage; nor is it in our power to redeem them, for other men have our lands and vineyards.

    6And I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words.

    7Then I consulted with myself and rebuked the nobles and rulers, and said to them, You are charging interest, each one from his brother. And I called a great assembly against them.

    8And I said to them, According to our ability, we have redeemed our fellow Jews who were sold to the nations; and will you even sell your brethren, or should they be sold to us? Then they were silent and found nothing to answer.

    9Also I said, What you are doing is not good. Should you not walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the nations, our enemies?

    10I likewise, and my brethren and my servants, could demand money and grain from them. I pray you, let us stop this interest.

    11Restore to them, I pray you, even this day, their lands, their vineyards, their olive groves, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, the grain, the new wine, and the olive oil, that you are charging them.

    12Then they said, We will restore them, and will require nothing from them; we will do as you say. Then I called the priests and required an oath from them that they would do according to this promise.

  • Neh 5:1-2
    2 verses
    84%

    1And there was a great outcry of the people and their wives against their fellow Jews.

    2For there were those who said, We, our sons, and our daughters are many: therefore we need to take grain for them, that we may eat and live.

  • Lam 5:2-6
    5 verses
    74%

    2Our inheritance is given to strangers, our houses to foreigners.

    3We are orphans and fatherless; our mothers are like widows.

    4We have drunk our own water for money; our wood is sold to us.

    5Our necks are under persecution; we labor and have no rest.

    6We have given our hand to the Egyptians and to the Assyrians to be satisfied with bread.

  • Gen 47:18-20
    3 verses
    71%

    18When that year ended, they came to him the second year, and said to him, We will not hide it from my lord, that our money is spent; my lord also has our herds of cattle; there is nothing left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies and our lands:

    19Why shall we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh: and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, that the land be not desolate.

    20And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine prevailed over them: so the land became Pharaoh's.

  • Lam 5:8-9
    2 verses
    71%

    8Servants rule over us; there is none to deliver us from their hand.

    9We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness.

  • Amos 8:6
    71%

    6That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals; yes, and sell the refuse of the wheat?

  • Jer 35:9
    70%

    9Nor to build houses for us to dwell in: nor have vineyard, nor field, nor seed:

  • Neh 9:36-37
    2 verses
    70%

    36Here we are, servants today! And the land that You gave to our forefathers to eat its fruit and its bounty, here we are, servants in it.

    37And it yields much increase to the kings You have set over us because of our sins; also, they have dominion over our bodies and our cattle at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.

  • Neh 10:31-32
    2 verses
    70%

    31And if the people of the land bring goods or any food on the Sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy it from them on the Sabbath, or on the holy day: and that we would forgo the seventh year and the exaction of every debt.

    32Also we made ordinances for us, to charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God;

  • Gen 47:15
    69%

    15And when money failed in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph, and said, Give us bread: for why should we die in your presence? for the money fails.

  • Isa 5:8-9
    2 verses
    69%

    8Woe to those who join house to house, who lay field to field, till there is no place, that they may dwell alone in the midst of the earth!

    9In my ears said the LORD of hosts, Truly many houses shall be desolate, even great and beautiful, without inhabitant.

  • Jer 32:43
    69%

    43And fields shall be bought in this land, of which you say, It is desolate without man or beast; it is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.

  • Gen 43:1
    69%

    1And the famine was severe in the land.

  • Amos 5:11
    69%

    11Since you tread upon the poor, and you take from him burdens of wheat: you have built houses of hewn stone, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink wine of them.

  • Neh 5:16
    69%

    16Indeed, I also devoted myself to the work on this wall and did not buy any land. All my servants were gathered there for the work.

  • Acts 7:11
    69%

    11Now there came a famine over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction; and our fathers found no sustenance.

  • Josh 9:12
    69%

    12This bread of ours we took hot for our provision out of our houses on the day we came forth to go to you; but now, see, it is dry and moldy:

  • Joel 1:17
    68%

    17The seed shrivels under their clods, the storehouses are desolate, the barns are broken down; for the grain is withered.

  • Neh 10:37
    68%

    37And that we should bring the firstfruits of our dough, and our offerings, and the fruit of all kinds of trees, of wine and of oil, to the priests, to the chambers of the house of our God; and the tithes of our ground to the Levites, that the same Levites might have the tithes in all the cities of our tillage.

  • Gen 31:15
    68%

    15Are we not regarded by him as strangers? For he has sold us, and has also utterly consumed our money.

  • Gen 41:57
    68%

    57All countries came into Egypt to Joseph to buy grain, because the famine was so severe in all the lands.

  • Gen 42:5
    68%

    5And the sons of Israel came to buy grain among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan.

  • Job 5:5
    67%

    5Whose harvest the hungry devour, and take it even out of the thorns, and the thief swallows up their substance.

  • Gen 47:13
    67%

    13And there was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very severe, so that the land of Egypt and all the land of Canaan languished because of the famine.

  • Jer 32:15
    67%

    15For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Houses and fields and vineyards shall be possessed again in this land.

  • Lev 25:20
    67%

    20And if you shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase:

  • 1 Sam 2:5
    67%

    5Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread; and those who were hungry have ceased to hunger: so that the barren has borne seven; and she who has many children has become feeble.

  • Joel 1:10
    67%

    10The field is wasted, the land mourns; for the grain is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languishes.

  • Ezra 5:9
    66%

    9Then we asked those elders and said to them, Who commanded you to build this house and to finish these walls?

  • 2 Chr 29:9
    66%

    9For behold, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.