Nehemiah 5:3-5

21st Century King James Version

³ There were some also who said, “We have mortgaged our lands, vineyards, and houses, that we might buy corn because of the dearth.”

⁴ There were also those who said, “We have borrowed money for the king’s tribute, and that upon our lands and vineyards.

⁵ Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children; and lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought unto bondage already; neither is it in our power to redeem them, for other men have our lands and vineyards.”