Nehemiah 5:2
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2 For there were those who said, “With our sons and our daughters, we are many. So let us get grain, that we may eat and keep alive.”
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Malachi 2:2
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2 (A)If you will not listen, if you will not take it to heart to give honor to my name, says the Lord of hosts, then I will send (B)the curse upon you and I will curse (C)your blessings. Indeed, I have already cursed them, because you do not lay it to heart.
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Psalm 128:2-4
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2 You (A)shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands;
you shall be blessed, and it shall be well with you.
3 Your wife will be like (B)a fruitful vine
within your house;
your children will be like (C)olive shoots
around your table.
4 Behold, thus shall the man be blessed
who fears the Lord.
Psalm 127:3-5
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3 Behold, (A)children are a heritage from the Lord,
(B)the fruit of the womb a reward.
4 Like arrows in the hand of (C)a warrior
are the children[a] of one's youth.
5 Blessed is the man
who fills his quiver with them!
He shall not be put to shame
when he speaks with his enemies (D)in the gate.[b]
Footnotes
- Psalm 127:4 Or sons
- Psalm 127:5 Or They shall not be put to shame when they speak with their enemies in the gate
Genesis 43:8
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8 And Judah said to Israel his father, “Send the boy with me, and we will arise and go, that we may (A)live and not die, both we and you and also our little ones.
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Genesis 42:2
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2 And he said, “Behold, I have heard that there is grain for sale in Egypt. Go down and buy grain for us there, that we may (A)live and not die.”
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Genesis 41:57
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57 Moreover, all the earth came to Egypt to Joseph to buy grain, because the famine was severe (A)over all the earth.
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