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Nehemiah 5:2
Nehemiah 5:2 is verse 2 of Nehemiah chapter 5, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Some were saying, “We and our sons and daughters are numerous. We must get grain in order to eat and stay alive.”
King James Version
For there were that said, We, our sons, and our daughters, are many: therefore we take up corn for them, that we may eat, and live.
World English Bible
For there were some who said, “We, our sons and our daughters, are many. Let us get grain, that we may eat and live.”
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Nehemiah 5:1–4 · Berean Standard Bible
1 About that time there was a great outcry from the people and their wives against their fellow Jews.
2 Some were saying, “We and our sons and daughters are numerous. We must get grain in order to eat and stay alive.”
3 Others were saying, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our homes to get grain during the famine.”
4 Still others were saying, “We have borrowed money to pay the king’s tax on our fields and vineyards.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Psalms 127:3Children are indeed a heritage from the LORD, and the fruit of the womb is His reward.
Psalms 127:4Like arrows in the hand of a warrior, so are children born in one’s youth.
Psalms 127:5Blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them. He will not be put to shame when he confronts the enemies at the gate.
Psalms 128:2For when you eat the fruit of your labor, blessings and prosperity will be yours.
Psalms 128:3Your wife will be like a fruitful vine flourishing within your house, your sons like olive shoots sitting around your table.
Psalms 128:4In this way indeed shall blessing come to the man who fears the LORD.
Malachi 2:2If you do not listen, and if you do not take it to heart to honor My name,” says the LORD of Hosts, “I will send a curse among you, and I will curse your blessings. Yes, I have already begun to curse them, because you are not taking it to heart.
Genesis 41:57And every nation came to Joseph in Egypt to buy grain, because the famine was severe over all the earth.
Genesis 42:2“Look,” he added, “I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy some for us, so that we may live and not die.”
Genesis 43:8And Judah said to his father Israel, “Send the boy with me, and we will go at once, so that we may live and not die—neither we, nor you, nor our children.