Wealthy ones were exacting heavy interest, and their poorer brothers, in order to pay debts as well as the Persian tax, had to give up their land and even sell their children into slavery.
Orang - orang kaya menuntut riba yang tinggi, dan saudara - saudara mereka yang lebih miskin, demi membayar utang serta pajak kepada negara Persia, harus menyerahkan tanah mereka dan bahkan menjual anak - anak mereka sebagai budak.