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

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If you do not listen,(A) and if you do not resolve to honor(B) my name,” says the Lord Almighty, “I will send a curse(C) on you, and I will curse your blessings.(D) Yes, I have already cursed them, because you have not resolved to honor me.

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You will eat the fruit of your labor;(A)
    blessings and prosperity(B) will be yours.
Your wife will be like a fruitful vine(C)
    within your house;
your children(D) will be like olive shoots(E)
    around your table.
Yes, this will be the blessing(F)
    for the man who fears the Lord.(G)

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Children are a heritage from the Lord,
    offspring a reward(A) from him.
Like arrows(B) in the hands of a warrior
    are children born in one’s youth.
Blessed is the man
    whose quiver is full of them.(C)
They will not be put to shame
    when they contend with their opponents(D) in court.(E)

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Then Judah(A) said to Israel(B) his father, “Send the boy along with me and we will go at once, so that we and you and our children may live and not die.(C)

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He continued, “I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy some for us,(A) so that we may live and not die.”(B)

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57 And all the world came to Egypt to buy grain from Joseph,(A) because the famine was severe everywhere.(B)

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