Nehemiah 5:2 Cross References - Rotherham

² And there were some who were saying, Our sons and our daughters, are we pledging,––that we may obtain corn, and eat, and keep ourselves alive.

⁵⁷ All the earth also, came in to Egypt to buy corn, unto Joseph,––because the famine had laid fast hold on all the earth.

² And he said, Lo! I have heard that there is, corn, in Egypt,––Go down thither, and buy corn for us from thence, that we may live, and not die.

⁸ Then said Judah unto Israel his father––Come! send thou down the young man with me, that we may arise and go our way,––and live and not die, both, we and thou, and our little ones.

³ Lo! an inheritance from Yahweh, are children, A reward, the fruit of the womb: ⁴ As arrows in the hand of a warrior, so, are the children of young men. ⁵ How happy the man who hath filled his quiver with them! They will not be ashamed, but will speak with enemies in the gate.

² The labour of thine own hands, surely thou shalt eat. How happy thou, and well for thine! ³ Thy wife, like a fruitful vine, within the recesses of thy house,––Thy children, like plantings of olive–trees, round about thy table. ⁴ Lo! thus, shall be blessed the man who revereth Yahweh.

² If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory to my Name, saith Yahweh of hosts, then will I send among you the curse, and will curse your blessings,––and indeed I have cursed them, because ye are not at all laying it to heart.