1. Now there was a great cry of the people, and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.
2. And there were some that said: Our sons and our daughters are very many: Yet us take up corn for the price of them, and let us eat and live.
3. And there were some that said: Let us mortgage our lands, and our vineyards, and our houses, and let us take corn because of the famine.
4. And others said: Let us borrow money for the king's tribute, and let us give up our fields and vineyards: