Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Nehemiah 5:3:

• Kupsabiny: “Others say, ‘But we have mortgaged our gardens together with our houses so that we get food because there is hunger/famine.’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “There are some of them who said, ‘We (excl.) just already mortgaged our (excl.) farms, field of grapes/(vineyards), and our (excl.) houses so-that we (excl.) have food in times of famine/[lit. season-of-hunger].’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “Others said, ‘The fields and vineyards and houses that we own, it has been necessary for us to mortgage them/promise to give them to someone if we do not pay back to him the money he has loaned us in order to get money to buy grain, during this famine/time where there is not much food.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)