Nehemiah 5:5

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, Exodus 21:7 , and some were sometimes taken to be bondmen in payment of their parents' debts, 2 Kings 4:1

neither is it in our power to redeem them, for other men have our lands and vineyards ; as pledges for money borrowed.