Neh 5:5

“And now, like the flesh of our brethren is our flesh And now, we are as esteemed and distinguished as our brethren who are rich. like their children are our children Like their children, who are esteemed and distinguished, so are our children distinguished. and behold, we are subjecting And now we have to subject and deliver our sons and daughters to others for the sake of our sustenance. and some of our daughters are subjected And already there are some of our daughters who are subjected to others in slavery. and we have no power We do not have the ability to redeem them. and others have our fields and vineyards We have even delivered our fields and vineyards to others for our sustenance. From now on, what shall we eat? We have nothing with which to sustain ourselves.”

“Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren,.... We are of the same nature, nation, stock, and religion: our children as their children; are circumcised as they, and have a right to the same privileges in church and state: and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and daughters to be servants; shall be obliged to it, unless relieved: and some of our daughters are brought into bondage already; sold to be servants, as they might in case of the poverty of parents, Exo 21:7, and some were sometimes taken to be bondmen in payment of their parents' debts, Kg2 4:1 neither is it in our power to redeem them, for other men have our lands and vineyards; as pledges for money borrowed.”