Nehemiah 5:5

Overview - Nehemiah 5
The Jews complain of their debt, mortgage, and bondage.
Nehemiah rebukes the usurers, and causes them to make a covenant of restitution.
14 He forbears his own allowance, and keeps hospitality.
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Nehemiah 5:5  (King James Version)
Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought unto bondage already: neither is it in our power to redeem them; for other men have our lands and vineyards.
 


our flesh
Genesis 37:27 ; Isaiah 58:7 ; James 2:5 James 2:6

we
Exodus 21:1-11 ; Leviticus 25:39-43 ; 2 Kings 4:1 ; Matthew 18:25