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Nehemiah 5:1-3
New Catholic Bible
Nehemiah 5:1-3
New Catholic Bible
Chapter 5
Antisocial Conduct.[a] 1 Soon thereafter, there arose a great outcry from the common people and from their wives against their Jewish brothers. 2 Some were vehement in their complaints that they were forced to pledge their sons and daughters in order to obtain grain so that they might eat and stay alive. 3 Others asserted that they were forced to mortgage their fields, their vineyards, and their houses in order to survive.
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- Nehemiah 5:1 It is one thing to be abused by outsiders; here, the enemies were fellow Jews who probably had returned under Zerubbabel (Ezr 1:2) and were now the social and financial elite who were taking advantage of the newly arrived.
