Nehemiah 5:3-5

Jubilee Bible 2000

³ There were also some that said, We have mortgaged our lands, vineyards, and houses, that we might buy grain because of the famine.

⁴ And there were some that said, We have borrowed money for the king’s tribute, and that upon our lands and vineyards.

⁵ Yet now, given that the flesh of our brethren is as our flesh and their sons as our sons, behold, we subject our sons and our daughters to slavery, and there are some of our daughters in bondage already; neither is it in our power to redeem them; for other men have our lands and vineyards.