Nehemiah 5:2

In 11 translations

BSB

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

KJV

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.

WEB

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

ASV

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

LSV

indeed, there are [those] who are saying, “Our sons, and our daughters, we—are many, and we receive grain, and eat, and live.”

YLT

yea, there are who are saying, 'Our sons, and our daughters, we — are many, and we receive corn, and eat, and live.'

DBY

And there were that said, We, our sons and our daughters, are many, and we must procure corn that we may eat and live.

DRC

And there were some that said: Our sons and our daughters are very many: Yet us take up corn for the price of them, and let us eat and live.

GNV

For there were that said, We, our sonnes and our daughters are many, therefore we take vp corne, that we may eate and liue.

JPS

For there were that said: 'We, our sons and our daughters, are many; let us get for them corn, that we may eat and live.'

LXXE

And some said, We are numerous with our sons and our daughters; so we will take corn, and eat, and live.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC

וְיֵשׁ֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר אֹמְרִ֔ים בָּנֵ֥ינוּ וּבְנֹתֵ֖ינוּ אֲנַ֣חְנוּ רַבִּ֑ים וְנִקְחָ֥ה דָגָ֖ן וְנֹאכְלָ֥ה וְנִחְיֶֽה׃

LXX-Br15:2

Καὶ ἦσάν τινες λέγοντες, ἐν υἱοῖς ἡμῶν καὶ ἐν θυγατράσιν ἡμῶν ἡμεῖς πολλοὶ, καὶ λημψόμεθα σῖτον καὶ φαγόμεθα καὶ ζησόμεθα.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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Cross-references most cited first

• Malachi 2:2If you do not listen, and if you do not take it to heart to honor My name,” says the LORD of Hosts, “I will send a curse among you, and I will curse your blessings. Yes, I have already begun to curse them, because you…
• Psalms 128:2–4For when you eat the fruit of your labor, blessings and prosperity will be yours. Your wife will be like a fruitful vine flourishing within your house, your sons like olive shoots sitting around your table. In this way…
• Genesis 41:57And every nation came to Joseph in Egypt to buy grain, because the famine was severe over all the earth.
• Genesis 43:8And Judah said to his father Israel, “Send the boy with me, and we will go at once, so that we may live and not die—neither we, nor you, nor our children.
• Psalms 127:3–5Children are indeed a heritage from the LORD, and the fruit of the womb is His reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior, so are children born in one’s youth. Blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them. He will…
• Genesis 42:2“Look,” he added, “I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy some for us, so that we may live and not die.”

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