Nehemiah 5:2 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

² Some were saying, ‘We, our sons, and our daughters are numerous. Let us get grain so that we can eat and live.’

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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 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 41:57

Every land came to Joseph in Egypt to buy grain, for the famine was severe in every land.

Genesis 42:2

Listen,’ he went on, ‘I have heard there is grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy some for us so that we will live and not die.’

Genesis 43:8

Then Judah said to his father Israel, ‘Send the boy with me. We will be on our way so that we may live and not die #– #neither we, nor you, nor our dependents.

Genesis 47:19

Why should we die here in front of you #– #both us and our land? Buy us and our land in exchange for food. Then we with our land will become Pharaoh’s slaves. Give us seed so that we can live and not die, and so that the land won’t become desolate.’

2 Kings 4:1

One of the wives of the sons of the prophets  cried out to Elisha, ‘Your servant, my husband, has died. You know that your servant feared the Lord.  Now the creditor is coming to take my two children as his slaves.’

Nehemiah 5:3

Others were saying, ‘We are mortgaging our fields, vineyards, and homes to get grain during the famine.’

Haggai 1:6

You have planted much but harvested little. You eat but never have enough to be satisfied. You drink but never have enough to be happy. You put on clothes but never have enough to get warm. The wage earner puts his wages into a bag with a hole in it.’

Malachi 2:2

If you don’t listen, and if you don’t take it to heart  to honour my name,’ says the Lord of Armies, ‘I will send a curse among you, and I will curse your blessings.  In fact, I have already begun to curse them because you are not taking it to heart.

Deuteronomy 23:19

‘Do not charge your brother interest on silver, food, or anything that can earn interest.