1. Then some of the people, the men and their wives, complained publicly about their Jewish relatives.
2. Some of them said, “We have large families! We need some grain ⌊if we are going⌋ to eat and stay alive.”
3. Others said, “We’ve had to mortgage our fields, our vineyards, and our homes in order to get some grain because of this famine.”
4. Others said, “We’ve had to borrow money to pay the king’s taxes on our fields and vineyards.