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There were also that said, We have borrowed kesef for the tax of HaMelech, and that upon our sadot and kramim.

Yet now our basar is the same as the basar of acheinu (our brethren, countrymen), our banot as their banot; and, hinei, we bring into the bondage of slavery our banim and our banot, and some of our banot are brought unto bondage already, neither is it in our power to redeem them, for other men have our sadot and kramim.

And I was very angry when I heard their outcry and these devarim.

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