Nehemiah 5:3

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

And there are who are saying, `Our fields, and our vineyards, and our houses, we are pledging, and we receive corn for the famine.'

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  • Gen 47:15-25 : 15 And the silver is consumed out of the land of Egypt, and out of the land of Canaan, and all the Egyptians come in unto Joseph, saying, `Give to us bread -- why do we die before thee, though the money hath ceased?' 16 and Joseph saith, `Give your cattle; and I give to you for your cattle, if the money hath ceased.' 17 And they bring in their cattle unto Joseph, and Joseph giveth to them bread, for the horses, and for the cattle of the flock, and for the cattle of the herd, and for the asses; and he tendeth them with bread, for all their cattle, during that year. 18 And that year is finished, and they come in unto him on the second year, and say to him, `We do not hide from my lord, that since the money hath been finished, and possession of the cattle `is' unto my lord, there hath not been left before my lord save our bodies, and our ground; 19 why do we die before thine eyes, both we and our ground? buy us and our ground for bread, and we and our ground are servants to Pharaoh; and give seed, and we live, and die not, and the ground is not desolate.' 20 And Joseph buyeth all the ground of Egypt for Pharaoh, for the Egyptians have sold each his field, for the famine hath been severe upon them, and the land becometh Pharaoh's; 21 as to the people he hath removed them to cities from the `one' end of the border of Egypt even unto its `other' end. 22 Only the ground of the priests he hath not bought, for the priests have a portion from Pharaoh, and they have eaten their portion which Pharaoh hath given to them, therefore they have not sold their ground. 23 And Joseph saith unto the people, `Lo, I have bought you to-day and your ground for Pharaoh; lo, seed for you, and ye have sown the ground, 24 and it hath come to pass in the increases, that ye have given a fifth to Pharaoh, and four of the parts are for yourselves, for seed of the field, and for your food, and for those who `are' in your houses, and for food for your infants.' 25 And they say, `Thou hast revived us; we find grace in the eyes of my lord, and have been servants to Pharaoh;'
  • Lev 25:35-39 : 35 `And when thy brother is become poor, and his hand hath failed with thee, then thou hast kept hold on him, sojourner and settler, and he hath lived with thee; 36 thou takest no usury from him, or increase; and thou hast been afraid of thy God; and thy brother hath lived with thee; 37 thy money thou givest not to him in usury, and for increase thou givest not thy food; 38 I `am' Jehovah your God, who hath brought you out of the land of Egypt, to give to you the land of Canaan, to become your God. 39 `And when thy brother becometh poor with thee, and he hath been sold to thee, thou dost not lay on him servile service;
  • Deut 15:7 : 7 `When there is with thee any needy one of one of thy brethren, in one of thy cities, in thy land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee, thou dost not harden thy heart, nor shut thy hand from thy needy brother;
  • Mal 3:8-9 : 8 Doth man deceive God? but ye are deceiving Me, And ye have said: `In what have we deceived Thee?' The tithe and the heave-offering! 9 With a curse ye are cursed! And Me ye are deceiving -- this nation -- all of it. 10 Bring in all the tithe unto the treasure-house, And there is food in My house; When ye have tried Me, now, with this, Said Jehovah of Hosts, Do not I open to you the windows of heaven? Yea, I have emptied on you a blessing till there is no space. 11 And I have pushed for you against the consumer, And He doth not destroy to you the fruit of the ground, Nor miscarry to you doth the vine in the field, Said Jehovah of Hosts.

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  • Neh 5:4-12
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    4And there are who are saying, `We have borrowed money for the tribute of the king, `on' our fields, and our vineyards;

    5and now, as the flesh of our brethren `is' our flesh, as their sons `are' our sons, and lo, we are subduing our sons and our daughters for servants, and there are of our daughters subdued, and our hand hath no might, and our fields and our vineyards `are' to others.'

    6And it is very displeasing to me when I have heard their cry and these words,

    7and my heart reigneth over me, and I strive with the freemen, and with the prefects, and say to them, `Usury one upon another ye are exacting;' and I set against them a great assembly,

    8and say to them, `We have acquired our brethren the Jews, those sold to the nations, according to the ability that `is' in us, and ye also sell your brethren, and they have been sold to us!' and they are silent, and have not found a word.

    9And I say, `Not good `is' the thing that ye are doing; in the fear of our God do ye not walk, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies?

    10And also, I, my brethren, and my servants, are exacting of them silver and corn; let us leave off, I pray you, this usury.

    11Give back, I pray you, to them, as to-day, their fields, their vineyards, their olive-yards, and their houses, and the hundredth `part' of the money, and of the corn, of the new wine, and of the oil, that ye are exacting of them.'

    12And they say, `We give back, and of them we seek nothing; so we do as thou art saying.' And I call the priests, and cause them to swear to do according to this thing;

  • Neh 5:1-2
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    1And there is a great cry of the people and their wives, concerning their brethren the Jews,

    2yea, there are who are saying, `Our sons, and our daughters, we -- are many, and we receive corn, and eat, and live.'

  • Lam 5:2-6
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    2Our inheritance hath been turned to strangers, Our houses to foreigners.

    3Orphans we have been -- without a father, our mothers `are' as widows.

    4Our water for money we have drunk, Our wood for a price doth come.

    5For our neck we have been pursued, We have laboured -- there hath been no rest for us.

    6`To' Egypt we have given a hand, `To' Asshur, to be satisfied with bread.

  • Gen 47:18-20
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    18And that year is finished, and they come in unto him on the second year, and say to him, `We do not hide from my lord, that since the money hath been finished, and possession of the cattle `is' unto my lord, there hath not been left before my lord save our bodies, and our ground;

    19why do we die before thine eyes, both we and our ground? buy us and our ground for bread, and we and our ground are servants to Pharaoh; and give seed, and we live, and die not, and the ground is not desolate.'

    20And Joseph buyeth all the ground of Egypt for Pharaoh, for the Egyptians have sold each his field, for the famine hath been severe upon them, and the land becometh Pharaoh's;

  • Lam 5:8-9
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    8Servants have ruled over us, A deliverer there is none from their hand.

    9With our lives we bring in our bread, Because of the sword of the wilderness.

  • Amos 8:6
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    6To purchase with money the poor, And the needy for a pair of sandals, Yea, the refuse of the pure corn we sell.

  • Jer 35:9
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    9nor to build houses for our dwelling; and vineyard, and field, and seed, we have none;

  • Neh 9:36-37
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    36`Lo, we -- to-day -- `are' servants, and the land that Thou hast given to our fathers, to eat its fruit and its good -- lo, we `are' servants on it,

    37and its increase it is multiplying to the kings whom Thou hast set over us in our sins; and over our bodies they are ruling, and over our cattle, according to their pleasure, and we `are' in great distress.

  • Neh 10:31-32
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    31and the peoples of the land who are bringing in the wares and any corn on the sabbath-day to sell, we receive not of them on the sabbath, and on a holy day, and we leave the seventh year, and usury on every hand.

    32And we have appointed for ourselves commands, to put on ourselves the third of a shekel in a year, for the service of the house of our God,

  • Gen 47:15
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    15And the silver is consumed out of the land of Egypt, and out of the land of Canaan, and all the Egyptians come in unto Joseph, saying, `Give to us bread -- why do we die before thee, though the money hath ceased?'

  • Isa 5:8-9
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    8Wo `to' those joining house to house, Field to field they bring near, till there is no place, And ye have been settled by yourselves In the midst of the land!

    9By the weapons of Jehovah of Hosts Do not many houses a desolation become? Great and good without inhabitant!

  • Jer 32:43
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    43and bought hath been the field in this land of which ye are saying, A desolation it `is', without man and beast, it hath been given into the hand of the Chaldeans.

  • Gen 43:1
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    1And the famine `is' severe in the land;

  • Amos 5:11
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    11Therefore, because of your trampling on the poor, And the tribute of corn ye take from him, Houses of hewn work ye have built, And ye do not dwell in them, Desirable vineyards ye have planted, And ye do not drink their wine.

  • Neh 5:16
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    16And also, in the work of this wall I have done mightily, even a field we have not bought, and all my servants are gathered there for the work;

  • Acts 7:11
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    11`And there came a dearth upon all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great tribulation, and our fathers were not finding sustenance,

  • Josh 9:12
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    12this our bread -- hot we provided ourselves with it out of our houses, on the day of our coming out to go unto you, and now, lo, it is dry, and hath been crumbs;

  • Joel 1:17
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    17Rotted have scattered things under their clods, Desolated have been storehouses, Broken down have been granaries, For withered hath the corn.

  • Neh 10:37
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    37And the beginning of our dough, and our heave-offerings, and the fruit of every tree, of new wine, and of oil, we bring in to the priests, unto the chambers of the house of our God, and the tithe of our ground to the Levites; and they -- the Levites -- have the tithes in all the cities of our tillage;

  • Gen 31:15
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    15have we not been reckoned strangers to him? for he hath sold us, and he also utterly consumeth our money;

  • Gen 41:57
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    57and all the earth hath come to Egypt, to buy, unto Joseph, for the famine was severe in all the earth.

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    5And the sons of Israel come to buy in the midst of those coming, for the famine hath been in the land of Canaan,

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    5Whose harvest the hungry doth eat, And even from the thorns taketh it, And the designing swallowed their wealth.

  • Gen 47:13
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    13And there is no bread in all the land, for the famine `is' very grievous, and the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan are feeble because of the famine;

  • Jer 32:15
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    15For thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel, Again are houses and fields and vineyards bought in this land.'

  • Lev 25:20
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    20`And when ye say, What do we eat in the seventh year, lo, we do not sow, nor gather our increase?

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    5The satiated for bread hired themselves, And the hungry have ceased. While the barren hath borne seven, And she abounding with sons hath languished.

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    10Spoiled is the field, mourned hath the ground, For spoiled is the corn, Dried up hath been new wine, languish doth oil.

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    9Then we have asked of these elders, thus we have said to them, Who hath made for you a decree this house to build, and this wall to finish?

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    9And lo, fallen have our fathers by the sword, and our sons, and our daughters, and our wives `are' in captivity for this.