Nehemiah 5:2 - Revised Standard Version CI

² For there were those who said, “With our sons and our daughters, we are many; let us get grain, that we may eat and keep alive.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² For some said, We, our sons and daughters, are many; therefore allow us to take grain, that we may eat and live! If we are not given grain, let us take it!

American Standard Version (1901)

² For there were that said, We, our sons and our daughters, are many: let us get grain, that we may eat and live.

Common English Bible

² Some said, “With our sons and daughters we are many, and we all need grain to eat and stay alive.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

² And there were those who were saying: "Our sons and our daughters are very many. Let us receive grain as a price for them, and then we may eat and live."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² And there were some that said: Our sons and our daughters are very many. Let us take up corn for the price of them; and let us eat and live.

Nehemiah 5:2 Cross References

Genesis 41:57

Moreover, all the earth came to Egypt to Joseph to buy grain, because the famine was severe over all the earth.

Genesis 42:2

And he said, “Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt; go down and buy grain for us there, that we may live, and not die.”

Genesis 43:8

And Judah said to Israel his father, “Send the lad with me, and we will arise and go, that we may live and not die, both we and you and also our little ones.

Genesis 47:19

Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for food, and we with our land will be slaves to Pharaoh; and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, and that the land may not be desolate.”

2 Kings 4:1

Now the wife of one of the sons of the prophets cried to Elisha, “Your servant my husband is dead; and you know that your servant feared the Lord, but the creditor has come to take my two children to be his slaves.”

Nehemiah 5:3

There were also those who said, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our houses to get grain because of the famine.”

Haggai 1:6

You have sown much, and harvested little; you eat, but you never have enough; you drink, but you never have your fill; you clothe yourselves, but no one is warm; and he who earns wages earns wages to put them into a bag with holes.

Malachi 2:2

If you will not listen, if you will not lay it to heart to give glory to my name, says the Lord of hosts, then I will send the curse upon you and I will curse your blessings; indeed I have already cursed them, because you do not lay it to heart.

Deuteronomy 23:19

“You shall not lend upon interest to your brother, interest on money, interest on victuals, interest on anything that is lent for interest.