Nehemiah 5:2

For certain ones said, We, our sons, and our daughters, are many. Let us get grain for them, so that we may eat and live.

Genesis 41:57

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

Genesis 42:2

And he 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.

Genesis 43:8

And Judah said to Israel his father, Send the boy with me, and we will arise and go, so that we may live and not die, both we and you, also our little ones.

Psalm 127:3-5

Lo, children are the inheritance of Jehovah; the fruit of the womb is a reward.

Psalm 128:2-4

For you shall surely eat the labor of your hands; you shall be happy, and all is well with you.

Malachi 2:2

If you will not hear, and if you will not set it on your heart to give glory to My name, says Jehovah of Hosts, then I will send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings. And indeed I have cursed it, because you do not set it on your heart.

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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.

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We, our sons

Psalm 127:3
Lo, children are the inheritance of Jehovah; the fruit of the womb is a reward.
Psalm 128:2
For you shall surely eat the labor of your hands; you shall be happy, and all is well with you.
Malachi 2:2
If you will not hear, and if you will not set it on your heart to give glory to My name, says Jehovah of Hosts, then I will send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings. And indeed I have cursed it, because you do not set it on your heart.

We take up corn

Genesis 41:57
And all the earth came into Egypt to buy, to Joseph, because the famine was severe in all the earth.
Genesis 42:2
And he 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.
Genesis 43:8
And Judah said to Israel his father, Send the boy with me, and we will arise and go, so that we may live and not die, both we and you, also our little ones.

General references

Exodus 22:25
If you lend money to one of My people who is poor beside you, you shall not be to him as a money-lender, neither shall you lay upon him interest.
Amos 8:6
that we may buy the poor for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals; and sell the chaff of the wheat?