Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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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.
We, our sons
We take up corn
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Bible References
We, our sons
Psalm 127:3
Lo, an inheritance of Jehovah are sons, A reward is the fruit of the womb.
Psalm 128:2
The labour of thy hands thou surely eatest, Happy art thou, and good is to thee.
Malachi 2:2
If ye hearken not, and if ye lay it not to heart, To give honour to My name, said Jehovah of Hosts, I have sent against you the curse, And I have cursed your blessings, Yea, I have also cursed it, Because ye are not laying it to heart.
We take up corn
Genesis 41:57
and all the earth hath come to Egypt, to buy, unto Joseph, for the famine was severe in all the earth.
Genesis 42:2
he saith also, 'Lo, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt, go down thither, and buy for us from thence, and we live and do not die;'
Genesis 43:8
And Judah saith unto Israel his father, 'Send the youth with me, and we arise, and go, and live, and do not die, both we, and thou, and our infants.
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Exodus 22:25
'If thou dost lend My poor people with thee money, thou art not to him as a usurer; thou dost not lay on him usury;
Amos 8:6
To purchase with money the poor, And the needy for a pair of sandals, Yea, the refuse of the pure corn we sell.