Nehemiah 5:2

King James 3 - The Literal Traslation

For some were saying, With our sons and our daughters, we are many. And we take up grain for them, and we eat and live.

Cross References

Genesis 41:57

And all the earth came to Egypt to buy, to Joseph. For the famine was strong in all the earth.

Genesis 42:2

And he said, Behold! I have heard grain is in Egypt. Go down there and buy for us from there, that we may live and not die.

Genesis 43:8

And Judah said to his father Israel, Send the youth with me, and let us rise up and go, that we may live and not die, both we, and you, and our little ones.

Genesis 47:19

Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for bread; and let us, we and our land, become slaves to Pharaoh. And give seed so that we may live and not die, and the land not be desolate.

2 Kings 4:1

And a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets had cried to Elisha, saying, My husband, your servant, is dead. And you know that your servant has seen Jehovah. And the one who loaned has come to take my two boys to himself for slaves.

Nehemiah 5:3

Some also were saying, We have mortgaged our fields, and our vineyards, and our houses; and we take up grain because of the famine.

Haggai 1:6

You have sown much, and brought in little; you eat, but not to satiety; you drink, but not to be filled; you dress, but there is no warmth to one. And one hiring out himself hires out himself for a bag of holes.

Malachi 2:2

If you will not hear, and if you will not set it on your heart to give glory to My name, says Jehovah of Hosts, even I will send the curse on you, and I will curse your blessings. And indeed, I have cursed it, because you are not setting it on your heart.

Deuteronomy 23:19

You shall not lend at interest to your brother; interest of silver, interest of food, interest of anything loaned at interest.