Nehemiah 5:2 - Y'all Version Bible

² For there were some who 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

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."

Nehemiah 5:2 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 41:57

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

Genesis 42:2

He said, “Look, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Y’all go down there and buy some for us from there, so that we may live and not die.”

Genesis 43:8

Judah said to Israel, his father, “Send the boy with me, and we’ll get up and go, so that we may live, and not die, we as well as 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 Pharaoh. Give us seed, that we may live, and not die, and that the land won’t be desolate.”

2 Kings 4:1

Now a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, saying, “Your servant my husband is dead. You know that your servant feared YHWH. Now the creditor has come to take for himself my two children to be slaves.”

Nehemiah 5:3

There were also some who said, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our houses. Let us get grain, because of the famine.”

Haggai 1:6

Y’all have planted much, but bring in little. Y’all eat, but don’t have enough. Y’all drink, but aren’t not enough to be tipsy. Y’all clothe yourselves, but no one is warm. The one who earns wages puts them into a bag with holes.’

Malachi 2:2

If y’all will not listen, and y’all will not take it to heart to give glory to my name,” says YHWH Almighty, “then I will send a curse on y’all, and I will curse y’all’s blessings. Indeed, I have cursed them already, because y’all do not take it to heart.

Deuteronomy 23:19

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