Nehemiah 5:1-3

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

5 Now there was a great cry of the people, and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.

² And there were some that said: Our sons and our daughters are very many: Yet us take up corn for the price of them, and let us eat and live.

³ And there were some that said: Let us mortgage our lands, and our vineyards, and our houses, and let us take corn because of the famine.