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Nehemiah Chapter 5 verse 3 Holy Bible

ASV Nehemiah 5:3

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

And there were some who said, We are giving our fields and our vine-gardens and our houses for debt: let us get grain because we are in need.
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DARBY Nehemiah 5:3

And 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.
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KJV Nehemiah 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.
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WBT Nehemiah 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.
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WEB Nehemiah 5:3

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

And there are who are saying, `Our fields, and our vineyards, and our houses, we are pledging, and we receive corn for the famine.'
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 3. - Because of the dearth. Some, who could not say that their families were large, claimed relief on account, as it would seem, not so much of a present as of a past famine, which had forced them to mortgage their fields, vineyards, and houses. That Judaea was liable to famines about this time appears from Haggai 1:6, 9-11; Haggai 2:16-19.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(3) Because of the dearth.--Not any particular famine, strictly speaking, but their present hunger. The past mortgages had straitened their resources.