Nehemiah 5:1-3

Revised Geneva Translation

5 Now there was a great cry from the people, and from their wives, against their brethren the Jews.

² For there were those who said, “We, our sons and our daughters, are many. Therefore, let us get grain, so that we may eat and live.”

³ And there were those who said, “We must gage our lands and our vineyards and our houses, and get grain for the famine.”