Nehemiah 5:3

World English Bible (2000)

Some also there were that said, "We are mortgaging our fields, and our vineyards, and our houses. Let us get grain, because of the famine."

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  • Gen 47:15-25 : 15 When the money was all spent 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 our money fails." 16 Joseph said, "Give me your livestock; and I will give you food for your livestock, if your money is gone." 17 They brought their livestock to Joseph, and Joseph gave them bread in exchange for the horses, and for the flocks, and for the herds, and for the donkeys: and he fed them with bread in exchange for all their livestock for that year. 18 When that year was ended, they came to him the second year, and said to him, "We will not hide from my lord how our money is all spent, and the herds of livestock are my lord's. There is nothing left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands. 19 Why should 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. Give us seed, that we may live, and not die, and that the land won't be desolate." 20 So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, for every man of the Egyptians sold his field, because the famine was severe on them, and the land became Pharaoh's. 21 As for the people, he moved them to the cities from one end of the border of Egypt even to the other end of it. 22 Only he didn't buy the land of the priests, for the priests had a portion from Pharaoh, and ate their portion which Pharaoh gave them. That is why they didn't sell their land. 23 Then Joseph said to the people, "Behold, I have bought you and your land today for Pharaoh. Behold, here is seed for you, and you shall sow the land. 24 It will happen at the harvests, that you shall give a fifth to Pharaoh, and four parts will be your own, for seed of the field, for your food, for them of your households, and for food for your little ones." 25 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 "'If your brother has become poor, and his hand can't support him among you; then you shall uphold him. He shall live with you like an alien and a temporary resident. 36 Take no interest from him or profit, but fear your God; that your brother may live among you. 37 You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit. 38 I am Yahweh your God, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God. 39 "'If your brother has grown poor among you, and sells himself to you; you shall not make him to serve as a slave.
  • Deut 15:7 : 7 If a poor man, one of your brothers, is with you within any of your gates in your land which Yahweh 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 rob me! But you say, 'How have we robbed you?' In tithes and offerings. 9 You are cursed with the curse; for you rob me, even this whole nation. 10 Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this," says Yahweh of Armies, "if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough for. 11 I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast its fruit before its time in the field," says Yahweh of Armies.

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  • Neh 5:4-12
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    4 There were also some who said, "We have borrowed money for the king's tribute using our fields and our vineyards as collateral.

    5 Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children as their children. Behold, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters have been brought into bondage. Neither is it in our power to help it; for other men have our fields and our vineyards."

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

    7 Then I consulted with myself, and contended with the nobles and the rulers, and said to them, "You exact usury, everyone of his brother." I held a great assembly against them.

    8 I said to them, "We, after our ability, have redeemed our brothers the Jews that were sold to the nations; and would you even sell your brothers, and should they be sold to us?" Then they held their peace, and found never a word.

    9 Also I said, "The thing that you do is not good. Ought you not to walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies?

    10 I likewise, my brothers and my servants, lend them money and grain. Please let us stop this usury.

    11 Please restore to them, even this day, their fields, their vineyards, their olive groves, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and of the grain, the new wine, and the oil, that you are charging them."

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

  • Neh 5:1-2
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    1 Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brothers the Jews.

    2 For there were that said, "We, our sons and our daughters, are many. Let us get grain, that we may eat and live."

  • Lam 5:2-6
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    2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, Our houses to aliens.

    3 We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.

    4 We have drunken our water for money; Our wood is sold to us.

    5 Our pursuers are on our necks: We are weary, and have no rest.

    6 We have given the hand to the Egyptians, To the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

  • Gen 47:18-20
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    18 When that year was ended, they came to him the second year, and said to him, "We will not hide from my lord how our money is all spent, and the herds of livestock are my lord's. There is nothing left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands.

    19 Why should 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. Give us seed, that we may live, and not die, and that the land won't be desolate."

    20 So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, for every man of the Egyptians sold his field, because the famine was severe on them, and the land became Pharaoh's.

  • Lam 5:8-9
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    8 Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand.

    9 We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness.

  • Amos 8:6
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    6 that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes, and sell the sweepings with the wheat?'"

  • Jer 35:9
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    9 nor to build houses for us to dwell in; neither have we vineyard, nor field, nor seed:

  • Neh 9:36-37
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    36 "Behold, we are servants this day, and as for the land that you gave to our fathers to eat its fruit and its good, behold, we are servants in it.

    37 It yields much increase to the kings whom you have set over us because of our sins: also they have power over our bodies, and over our livestock, at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.

  • Neh 10:31-32
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    31 and if the peoples of the land bring wares or any grain on the Sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy of them on the Sabbath, or on a holy day; and that we would forego the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt.

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

  • Gen 47:15
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    15 When the money was all spent 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 our money fails."

  • Isa 5:8-9
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    8 Woe to those who join house to house, who lay field to field, until there is no room, and you are made to dwell alone in the midst of the land!

    9 In my ears, Yahweh of Armies says: "Surely many houses will be desolate, even great and beautiful, unoccupied.

  • Jer 32:43
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    43 Fields shall be bought in this land, about which you say, It is desolate, without man or animal; it is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.

  • Gen 43:1
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    1 The famine was severe in the land.

  • Amos 5:11
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    11 Forasmuch therefore as you trample on the poor, and take taxes from him of wheat: You have built houses of cut stone, but you will not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.

  • Neh 5:16
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    16 Yes, also I continued in the work of this wall, neither bought we any land: and all my servants were gathered there to the work.

  • Acts 7:11
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    11 Now a famine came over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction. Our fathers found no food.

  • Josh 9:12
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    12 This our bread we took hot for our provision out of our houses on the day we went out to go to you; but now, behold, it is dry, and has become moldy.

  • Joel 1:17
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    17 The seeds rot under their clods. The granaries are laid desolate. The barns are broken down, for the grain has withered.

  • Neh 10:37
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    37 and that we should bring the first fruits of our dough, and our wave offerings, and the fruit of all kinds of trees, the new wine and the oil, to the priests, to the rooms of the house of our God; and the tithes of our ground to the Levites; for they, the Levites, take the tithes in all the cities of our tillage.

  • Gen 31:15
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    15 Aren't we accounted by him as foreigners? For he has sold us, and has also quite devoured our money.

  • Gen 41:57
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    57 All countries came into Egypt, to Joseph, to buy grain, because the famine was severe in all the earth.

  • Gen 42:5
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    5 The sons of Israel came to buy among those who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.

  • Job 5:5
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    5 whose harvest the hungry eats up, and take it even out of the thorns. The snare gapes for their substance.

  • Gen 47:13
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    13 There was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very severe, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine.

  • Jer 32:15
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    15 For thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Houses and fields and vineyards shall yet again be bought in this land.

  • Lev 25:20
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    20 If you said, "What shall we eat the seventh year? Behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase;"

  • 1 Sam 2:5
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    5 Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread. Those who were hungry have ceased [to hunger]. Yes, the barren has borne seven. She who has many children languishes.

  • Joel 1:10
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    10 The field is laid waste. The land mourns, for the grain is destroyed, The new wine has dried up, and the oil languishes.

  • Ezra 5:9
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    9 Then we asked those elders, and said to them thus, "Who gave you a decree to build this house, and to finish this wall?"

  • 2 Chr 29:9
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    9 For, behold, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.