Nehemiah 5:3
There were others who were saying, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our houses to buy grain because of the famine.”
Genesis 47:15-25
And when the money was exhausted in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph and said, “Give us food! Why should we die before your very eyes? For our money is gone.”
Leviticus 25:35-39
‘Now if your fellow countryman becomes poor and his hand falters with you [that is, he has trouble repaying you for something], then you are to help and sustain him, [with courtesy and consideration] like [you would] a stranger or a temporary resident [without property], so that he may live among you.
Deuteronomy 15:7
“If there is a poor man among you, one of your fellow Israelites, in
Malachi 3:8-11
“Will a man rob God? Yet you are robbing Me! But you say, ‘In what way have we robbed You?’ In tithes and offerings [you have withheld].
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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Mortgaged
Because
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Mortgaged
Because
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So that we may buy the poor [as slaves] for silver [since they are unable to support themselves]
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And that we may sell the leftovers of the wheat [as if it were a good grade of grain]?”