nkjv Nehemiah:5:1-5 SEEK
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And there was a great outcry of the people and their wives against their Jewish brethren .
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For there were those who said , "
We ,
our sons ,
and our daughters are many ;
therefore let us get grain ,
that we may eat and live ."
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There were also some who said , "
We have mortgaged our lands and vineyards and houses ,
that we might buy grain because of the famine ."
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There were also those who said , "
We have borrowed money for the king '
s tax on our lands and vineyards .
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Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren ,
our children as their children ;
and indeed we are forcing our sons and our daughters to be slaves ,
and some of our daughters have been brought into slavery .
It is not in our power to redeem them ,
for other men have our lands and vineyards ."