Nehemiah 5:3-5

Christian Standard Bible

³ Others were saying, “We are mortgaging our fields, vineyards, and homes to get grain during the famine.”^{(A) 4} Still others were saying, “We have borrowed money to pay the king’s tax^(B) on our fields and vineyards.^{(C) 5} We and our children are just like our countrymen and their children, yet we are subjecting our sons and daughters to slavery.^(D) Some of our daughters are already enslaved,^(E) but we are powerless^[a] because our fields and vineyards belong to others.”