Nehemiah 5:3-5

New International Reader's Version

³ Others were saying, “We’re being forced to sell our fields, vineyards and homes. We have to do it to buy grain. There isn’t enough food for everyone.”

⁴ Still others were saying, “We’ve had to borrow money. We needed it to pay the king’s tax on our fields and vineyards. ⁵ We belong to the same family lines as the rest of our people. Our children are as good as theirs. But we’ve had to sell them off as slaves. Some of our daughters have already been made slaves. But we can’t do anything about it. That’s because our fields and vineyards now belong to others.”