Nehemiah 5:2 - King James 2000

For there were those that said, We, our sons, and our daughters, are many: therefore let us get grain for them, 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

And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph to buy grain; because that the famine was so severe in all lands.

Genesis 42:2

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

Genesis 43:8

And Judah said unto 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 shall we die before your eyes, both we and our land? buy us and our land for food, and we and our land will be servants unto Pharaoh: and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, that the land be not desolate.

2 Kings 4:1

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

Nehemiah 5:3

Some also there were that said, We have mortgaged our lands, vineyards, and houses, that we might buy grain, because of the famine.

Haggai 1:6

You have sown much, and bring in little; you eat, but you have not enough; you drink, but you are not filled with drink; you clothe yourselves, but no one is warm; and he that earns wages earns wages to put it into a bag with holes.

Malachi 2:2

If you will not hear, and if you will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, says the LORD of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have cursed them already, because you do not lay it to heart.

Deuteronomy 23:19

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