5:16 I gave myself to the work on this wall, without even purchasing 1 a field. All my associates were gathered there for the work.
Nehemiah 5:8
5:8 I said to them, “To the extent possible we have bought back our fellow Jews 2 who had been sold to the Gentiles. But now you yourselves want to sell your own countrymen, 3 so that we can then buy them back!” They were utterly silent, and could find nothing to say.