Nehemiah 5:2

WEB

²For there were some who said, “We, our sons and our daughters, are many. Let us get grain, that we may eat and live.”

KJV

²For 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.

BSB

²Some were saying, “We and our sons and daughters are numerous. We must get grain in order to eat and stay alive.”

FBV

²They were complaining, “Our families are so large we need more food^[+] so we can eat and live.”

Extra References

Psalms 128:2-4

²For you will eat the labor of your hands. You will be happy, and it will be well with you. ³Your wife will be as a fruitful vine in the innermost parts of your house, your children like olive shoots around your table. ⁴Behold, this is how the man who fears the LORD is blessed.

Malachi 2:2

²If you will not listen, and if you will not take it to heart, to give glory to my name,” says the LORD of Armies, “then I will send the curse on you, and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have cursed them already, because you do not take it to heart.

Genesis 43:8

⁸Judah 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, both we, and you, and also our little ones.

Genesis 41:57

⁵⁷All countries came into Egypt, to Joseph, to buy grain, because the famine was severe in all the earth.

Genesis 42:2

²He 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.”

Psalms 127:3-5

³Behold, children are a heritage of the LORD. The fruit of the womb is his reward. ⁴As arrows in the hand of a mighty man, so are the children of youth. ⁵Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them. They won’t be disappointed when they speak with their enemies in the gate.