And there were others who said,“ We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our houses so that we might get grain because of the famine.”

有的说：“我们典了田地、葡萄园、房屋，要得粮食充饥”；

有的说：“我们典押了田地、葡萄园、房屋，才得粮食充饥。”

有的说：“我们典押了田地、葡萄园、房屋，才得粮食充饥。”

有的说：“因为饥荒的缘故，我们要将田地、葡萄园和房屋作抵押来获取粮食。”

有些人说：“我们抵押了自己的田地、葡萄园和房屋，为要在饥荒中买到五谷。”

有的說：「我們典了田地、葡萄園、房屋，要得糧食充飢」；

有的說：「我們典押了田地、葡萄園、房屋，才得糧食充飢。」

有的說：「我們典押了田地、葡萄園、房屋，才得糧食充飢。」

有的說：「因為饑荒的緣故，我們要將田地、葡萄園和房屋作抵押來獲取糧食。」

有些人說：“我們抵押了自己的田地、葡萄園和房屋，為要在饑荒中買到五穀。”

有的說：『我們已典了我們的田地、葡萄園和房屋、去在這饑荒中取得五穀了。』

或曰、我質田畝、葡萄園、及第宅、因饑饉以得穀、

或曰、飢饉既甚、我已質田園宅第於人以糴穀。

或曰、我當質田畝、葡萄園、宅第、以糴榖充饑、

Others were saying,“ We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards and our homes to get grain during the famine.”

Others were saying,“ We’re being forced to sell our fields, vineyards and homes. We have to do it to buy grain. There isn’t enough food for everyone.”

There were also those who said,“ We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our houses to get grain because of the famine.”

Others said,“ We have mortgaged our fields, vineyards, and homes to get food during the famine.”

Others were saying,“ We are mortgaging our fields, vineyards, and homes to get grain during the famine.”

There were also some who said,“ We have mortgaged our lands and vineyards and houses, that we might buy grain because of the famine.”

Some also there were that said, We are mortgaging our fields, and our vineyards, and our houses: let us get grain, because of the dearth.

Others were saying,“ We are mortgaging our fields, vineyards, and homes to get grain during the famine.”

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

There were others who said,“ We are putting up our fields, our vineyards, and our houses as collateral in order to obtain grain during the famine.”

There were also some who said,“ We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our houses. Let us get grain, because of the famine.”

“ Would anyone rob God? Yet you are robbing Me! But you say,‘ How have we robbed You?’ In tithes and offerings.You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing Me, the entire nation of you!Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house, and put Me to the test now in this,” says the Lord of armies,“ if I do not open for you the windows of heaven and pour out for you a blessing until it overflows.Then I will rebuke the devourer for you, so that it will not destroy the fruit of your ground; nor will the vine in the field prove fruitless to you,” says the Lord of armies.

‘ Now in case a countryman of yours becomes poor and his means among you falter, then you are to sustain him, like a stranger or a resident, so that he may live with you.Do not take any kind of interest from him, but fear your God, so that your countryman may live with you.You shall not give him your silver at interest, nor your food for profit.I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God.‘ Now if a countryman of yours becomes so poor with regard to you that he sells himself to you, you shall not subject him to a slave’s service.

When the money was all spent in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph saying,“ Give us food, for why should we die in your presence? For our money is gone.”Then Joseph said,“ Give up your livestock, and I will give you food for your livestock, since your money is gone.”So they brought their livestock to Joseph, and Joseph gave them food in exchange for the horses and the flocks and the herds and the donkeys; and he fed them with food in exchange for all their livestock that year.But when that year ended, they came to him the next year and said to him,“ We will not hide from my lord the fact that our money is all spent, and the livestock are my lord’s. There is nothing left for my lord except our bodies and our lands.Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for food, and we and our land will be slaves to Pharaoh. So give us seed, so that we may live and not die, and that the land may not be desolate.”So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, for every Egyptian sold his field, because the famine was severe upon them. So the land became Pharaoh’s.As for the people, he relocated them to the cities from one end of Egypt’s border to the other.Only the land of the priests he did not buy, because the priests had an allotment from Pharaoh, and they lived off the allotment which Pharaoh gave them. Therefore, they did not sell their land.Then Joseph said to the people,“ Behold, today I have purchased you and your land for Pharaoh; now, here is seed for you, and you may sow the land.At the harvest you shall give a fifth to Pharaoh, and four fifths shall be your own for seed of the field and for your food, and for those of your households and as food for your little ones.”So they said,“ You have saved our lives! Let us find favor in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh’s slaves.”

“ If there is a poor person among you, one of your brothers, in any of your towns in your land which the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not harden your heart, nor close your hand from your poor brother;