Nehemiah 5:5
Ver. 5. 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, Ex 21:7, and some were sometimes taken to be bondmen in payment of their parents' debts, 2Ki 4:1
neither is it in our power to redeem them, for other men have our lands and vineyards; as pledges for money borrowed.