Nehemiah 5:2

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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.

Cross References

Malachi 2:2

If you will not hear, and if you will not lay it to heart, to give glory to my name, saith the Lord of hosts: I will send poverty upon you, and will curse your blessings, yea I will curse them, because you have not laid it to heart.

Genesis 43:8

And Juda said to his father: Send the boy with me, that we may set forward, and may live: lest both we and our children perish.

Genesis 42:2

I have heard that wheat is sold in Egypt. Go ye down, and buy us necessaries, that we may live, and not be consumed with want.

Genesis 41:57

And all provinces came into Egypt, to buy food, and to seek some relief of their want.

Deuteronomy 23:19

Thou shalt not lend to thy brother money to usury, nor corn, nor any other thing:

2 Kings 4:1

Now a certain woman of the wives of the prophets cried to Eliseus, saying: Thy servant my husband is dead. And thou knowest that thy servant was one that feared God: and, behold the creditor is come to take away my two sons to serve him.

Nehemiah 5:3

And there were some that said: Let us mortgage our lands, and our vineyards, and our houses; and let us take corn because of the famine.

Haggai 1:6

You have sowed much, and brought in little: you have eaten, but have not had enough: you have drunk, but have not been filled with drink: you have clothed yourselves, but have not been warmed: and he that hath earned wages, put them into a bag with holes.

Genesis 47:19

Why therefore shall we die before thy eyes? We will be thine, both we and our lands. Buy us to be the king's servants, and give us seed, lest for want of tillers the land be turned into a wilderness.