Nehemiah 5:2-4

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

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.

⁴ And others said: Let us borrow money for the king's tribute, and let us give up our fields and vineyards: