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Nehemiah 5:1

Poverty and the vulnerableJustice
And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.

2 For there were that said, We, our sons, and our daughters, are many: therefore we take up corn for them, that we may eat, and live.

3 Some also there were that said, We have mortgaged our lands, vineyards, and houses, that we might buy corn, because of the dearth.

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BSB
About that time there was a great outcry from the people and their wives against their fellow Jews.
KJV
And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.
WEB
Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brothers the Jews.
ASV
Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.
DARBY
And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.
BLB
And there was a great outcry of the people and their wives against their brothers the Jews.
ÅB
Men det reiste seg et stort skrik fra folket og deres hustruer mot deres jødiske brødre.
OTB
Nå var det et stort rop fra folket og deres koner mot deres jødiske brødre.
B1930
Men det reiste sig et stort skrik fra folket og deres hustruer mot deres jødiske brødre.

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Cross references

  • Isaiah 5:7

    For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.

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  • Deuteronomy 15:7–11

    If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother:

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  • Leviticus 25:35–37

    And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt relieve him: yea, though he be a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with thee.

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  • Job 34:28

    So that they cause the cry of the poor to come unto him, and he heareth the cry of the afflicted.

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  • Job 31:38–39

    If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain;

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  • Acts 7:26

    And the next day he shewed himself unto them as they strove, and would have set them at one again, saying, Sirs, ye are brethren; why do ye wrong one to another?

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  • Exodus 3:7

    And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;

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  • James 5:4

    Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.

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