Bible verse
About that time there was a great outcry from the people and their wives against their fellow Jews.
Nehemiah 5:1 · BSB
The verses around it, from Nehemiah 5.
1 About that time there was a great outcry from the people and their wives against their fellow Jews.
2 Some were saying, “We and our sons and daughters are numerous. We must get grain in order to eat and stay alive.”
3 Others were saying, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our homes to get grain during the famine.”
4 Still others were saying, “We have borrowed money to pay the king’s tax on our fields and vineyards.
5 We and our children are just like our countrymen and their children, yet we are subjecting our sons and daughters to slavery. Some of our daughters are already enslaved, but we are powerless to redeem them because our fields and vineyards belong to others.”
KJV
And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.
ASV
Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.
ERV
Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.
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