“There were also some who said, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our houses. Let us get grain, because of the famine.””

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Nehemiah 5 contains 19 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.