Nehemiah 5:2 - Hebrew Names version (HNV)

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

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

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)

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

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

Catholic Public Domain Version

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

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 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 41:57

All countries came into Egypt, to Yosef, to buy grain, because the famine was severe in all the earth.

Genesis 42:2

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

Genesis 43:8

Yehudah said to Yisra'el, his father, *Send the boy with me, and we'll get up and go, so 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 bread, and we and our land will be servants to Par`oh. Give us seed, that we may live, and not die, and that the land won't be desolate.*

2 Kings 4:1

Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets to Elisha, saying, Your servant my husband is dead; and you know that your servant did fear the LORD: and the creditor is come to take to him my two children to be bondservants.

Nehemiah 5:3

Some also there were that said, We are mortgaging our fields, and our vineyards, and our houses: let us get grain, because of the dearth.

Haggai 1:6

You have sown much, and bring in little. You eat, but you don't have enough. You drink, but you aren't filled with drink. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm, and he who earns wages earns wages to put them into a bag with holes in it.*

Malachi 2:2

If you will not listen, and if you will not lay it to heart, to give glory to my name,* says the LORD of Armies, *then will I send the curse on you, and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have cursed them already, because you do not lay it to heart.

Deuteronomy 23:19

You shall not lend on interest to your brother; interest of money, interest of food, interest of anything that is lent on interest: