Nehemiah 5:3

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

There were others who said,“We are putting up our fields, our vineyards, and our houses as collateral in order to obtain grain during the famine.”

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  • Gen 47:15-25 : 15 When the money from the lands of Egypt and Canaan was used up, all the Egyptians came to Joseph and said,“Give us food! Why should we die before your very eyes because our money has run out?” 16 Then Joseph said,“If your money is gone, bring your livestock, and I will give you food in exchange for your livestock.” 17 So they brought their livestock to Joseph, and Joseph gave them food in exchange for their horses, the livestock of their flocks and herds, and their donkeys. He got them through that year by giving them food in exchange for all their livestock. 18 When that year was over, they came to him the next year and said to him,“We cannot hide from our lord that the money is used up and the livestock and the animals belong to our lord. Nothing remains before our lord except our bodies and our land. 19 Why should we die before your very eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land in exchange for food, and we, with our land, will become Pharaoh’s slaves. Give us seed that we may live and not die. Then the land will not become desolate.” 20 So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh. Each of the Egyptians sold his field, for the famine was severe. So the land became Pharaoh’s. 21 Joseph made all the people slaves from one end of Egypt’s border to the other end of it. 22 But he did not purchase the land of the priests because the priests had an allotment from Pharaoh and they ate from their allotment that Pharaoh gave them. That is why they did not sell their land. 23 Joseph said to the people,“Since I have bought you and your land today for Pharaoh, here is seed for you. Cultivate the land. 24 When the crop comes in, give one-fifth of it to Pharaoh. The remaining four-fifths will be yours for seed for the fields and for you to eat, including those in your households and your little children.” 25 They replied,“You have saved our lives! You are showing us favor, and we will be Pharaoh’s slaves.”
  • Lev 25:35-39 : 35 Debt and Slave Regulations“‘If your brother becomes impoverished and is indebted to you, you must support him; he must live with you like a foreign resident. 36 Do not take interest or profit from him, but you must fear your God and your brother must live with you. 37 You must not lend him your money at interest and you must not sell him food for profit. 38 I am the LORD your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan– to be your God. 39 “‘If your brother becomes impoverished with regard to you so that he sells himself to you, you must not subject him to slave service.
  • Deut 15:7 : 7 The Spirit of Liberality If a fellow Israelite from one of your villages in the land that the LORD your God is giving you should be poor, you must not harden your heart or be insensitive to his impoverished condition.
  • Mal 3:8-9 : 8 Can a person rob God? You indeed are robbing me, but you say,‘How are we robbing you?’ In tithes and contributions! 9 You are bound for judgment because you are robbing me– this whole nation is guilty. 10 “Bring the entire tithe into the storehouse so that there may be food in my temple. Test me in this matter,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies,“to see if I will not open for you the windows of heaven and pour out blessing for you until there is no room for it all. 11 Then I will stop the plague from ruining your crops, and the vine will not lose its fruit before harvest,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.

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  • Neh 5:4-12
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    4Then there were those who said,“We have borrowed money to pay our taxes to the king on our fields and our vineyards.

    5And now, though we share the same flesh and blood as our fellow countrymen, and our children are just like their children, still we have found it necessary to subject our sons and daughters to slavery. Some of our daughters have been subjected to slavery, while we are powerless to help, since our fields and vineyards now belong to other people.”

    6I was very angry when I heard their outcry and these complaints.

    7I considered these things carefully and then registered a complaint with the wealthy and the officials. I said to them,“Each one of you is seizing the collateral from your own countrymen!” Because of them I called for a great public assembly.

    8I said to them,“To the extent possible we have bought back our fellow Jews who had been sold to the Gentiles. But now you yourselves want to sell your own countrymen, so that we can then buy them back!” They were utterly silent, and could find nothing to say.

    9Then I said,“The thing that you are doing is wrong! Should you not conduct yourselves in the fear of our God in order to avoid the reproach of the Gentiles who are our enemies?

    10Even I and my relatives and my associates are lending them money and grain. But let us abandon this practice of seizing collateral!

    11This very day return to them their fields, their vineyards, their olive trees, and their houses, along with the interest that you are exacting from them on the money, the grain, the new wine, and the olive oil.”

    12They replied,“We will return these things, and we will no longer demand anything from them. We will do just as you say.” Then I called the priests and made the wealthy and the officials swear to do what had been promised.

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    1Nehemiah Intervenes on behalf of the Oppressed Then there was a great outcry from the people and their wives against their fellow Jews.

    2There were those who said,“With our sons and daughters, we are many. We must obtain grain in order to eat and stay alive.”

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    2Our inheritance is turned over to strangers; foreigners now occupy our homes.

    3We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers have become widows.

    4We must pay money for our own water; we must buy our own wood at a steep price.

    5We are pursued– they are breathing down our necks; we are weary and have no rest.

    6We have submitted to Egypt and Assyria in order to buy food to eat.

  • Gen 47:18-20
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    18When that year was over, they came to him the next year and said to him,“We cannot hide from our lord that the money is used up and the livestock and the animals belong to our lord. Nothing remains before our lord except our bodies and our land.

    19Why should we die before your very eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land in exchange for food, and we, with our land, will become Pharaoh’s slaves. Give us seed that we may live and not die. Then the land will not become desolate.”

    20So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh. Each of the Egyptians sold his field, for the famine was severe. So the land became Pharaoh’s.

  • Lam 5:8-9
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    8Slaves rule over us; there is no one to rescue us from their power.

    9At the risk of our lives we get our food because robbers lurk in the wilderness.

  • Amos 8:6
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    6We’re eager to trade silver for the poor, a pair of sandals for the needy! We want to mix in some chaff with the grain!”

  • Jer 35:9
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    9We have not built any houses to live in. We do not own any vineyards, fields, or crops.

  • Neh 9:36-37
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    36“So today we are slaves! In the very land you gave to our ancestors to eat its fruit and to enjoy its good things– we are slaves!

    37Its abundant produce goes to the kings you have placed over us due to our sins. They rule over our bodies and our livestock as they see fit, and we are in great distress!

  • Neh 10:31-32
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    31We will not buy on the Sabbath or on a holy day from the neighboring peoples who bring their wares and all kinds of grain to sell on the Sabbath day. We will let the fields lie fallow every seventh year, and we will cancel every loan.

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    8Disaster is Coming Beware, those who accumulate houses, who also accumulate landed property until there is no land left, and you are the only landowners remaining within the land.

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  • Jer 32:43
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    43You and your people are saying that this land will become desolate, uninhabited by either people or animals. You are saying that it will be handed over to the Babylonians. But fields will again be bought in this land.

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    1The Second Journey to Egypt Now the famine was severe in the land.

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    11Therefore, because you make the poor pay taxes on their crops and exact a grain tax from them, you will not live in the houses you built with chiseled stone, nor will you drink the wine from the fine vineyards you planted.

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    16I gave myself to the work on this wall, without even purchasing a field. All my associates were gathered there for the work.

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    11Then a famine occurred throughout Egypt and Canaan, causing great suffering, and our ancestors could not find food.

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    12This bread of ours was warm when we packed it in our homes the day we started out to meet you, but now it is dry and hard.

  • Joel 1:17
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    17The grains of seed have shriveled beneath their shovels. Storehouses have been decimated and granaries have been torn down, for the grain has dried up.

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    37We will also bring the first of our coarse meal, of our contributions, of the fruit of every tree, of new wine, and of olive oil to the priests at the storerooms of the temple of our God, along with a tenth of the produce of our land to the Levites, for the Levites are the ones who collect the tithes in all the cities where we work.

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    15Hasn’t he treated us like foreigners? He not only sold us, but completely wasted the money paid for us!

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    57People from every country came to Joseph in Egypt to buy grain because the famine was severe throughout the earth.

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    5So Israel’s sons came to buy grain among the other travelers, for the famine was severe in the land of Canaan.

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    5The hungry eat up his harvest, and take it even from behind the thorns, and the thirsty pant for their wealth.

  • Gen 47:13
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    13But there was no food in all the land because the famine was very severe; the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan wasted away because of the famine.

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    15For the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel says,“Houses, fields, and vineyards will again be bought in this land.”’

  • Lev 25:20
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    20If you say,‘What will we eat in the seventh year if we do not sow and gather our produce?’

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    5The well-fed hire themselves out to earn food, but the hungry no longer lack. Even the barren woman has given birth to seven, but the one with many children has declined.

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    10The crops of the fields have been destroyed. The ground is in mourning because the grain has perished. The fresh wine has dried up; the olive oil languishes.

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    9We inquired of those elders, asking them,‘Who gave you the authority to rebuild this temple and to complete this structure?’

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    9Look, our fathers died violently and our sons, daughters, and wives were carried off because of this.