3Others were saying, "We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards and our homes to get grain during the famine."


In Context

1 Now the men and their wives raised a great outcry against their Jewish brothers.

2 Some were saying, "We and our sons and daughters are numerous; in order for us to eat and stay alive, we must get grain."

3 Others were saying, "We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards and our homes to get grain during the famine."

4 Still others were saying, "We have had to borrow money to pay the king's tax on our fields and vineyards.

5 Although we are of the same flesh and blood as our countrymen and though our sons are as good as theirs, yet we have to subject our sons and daughters to slavery. Some of our daughters have already been enslaved, but we are powerless, because our fields and our vineyards belong to others."

Nehemiah 5:3 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:3[Some] also there were that said, We have mortgaged our lands, vineyards, and houses, that we might buy corn, because of the dearth.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

5:3And there were some that said: Let us mortgage our lands, and our vineyards, and our houses, and let us take corn be- cause of the famine.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

5:3Some also there were that said, We are mortgaging our fields, and our vineyards, and our houses: let us get grain, because of the dearth.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:3And there were that said, We have had to pledge our fields, and our vineyards, and our houses, that we might procure corn in the dearth.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

5:3Some also there were that said, We are mortgaging our fields, and our vineyards, and our houses: let us get corn, because of the dearth.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:3Some also there were that said, We have mortgaged our lands, vineyards, and houses, that we might buy corn, because of the dearth.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:3Some also there were that said, |We are mortgaging our fields, and our vineyards, and our houses. Let us get grain, because of the famine.|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

5:3And there are who are saying, 'Our fields, and our vineyards, and our houses, we are pledging, and we receive corn for the famine.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:3Some also there were that said, We have mortgaged our lands, vineyards, and houses, that we might buy corn, because of the dearth.