Nehemiah 5:2
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2 For there were those who said, “We, our sons, and our daughters are many; therefore let us get grain, that we may eat and live.”
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Malachi 2:2
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2 (A)If you will not hear,
And if you will not take it to heart,
To give glory to My name,”
Says the Lord of hosts,
“I will send a curse upon you,
And I will curse your blessings.
Yes, I have cursed them (B)already,
Because you do not take it to heart.
Psalm 128:2-4
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2 (A)When you eat the [a]labor of your hands,
You shall be happy, and it shall be (B)well with you.
3 Your wife shall be (C)like a fruitful vine
In the very heart of your house,
Your (D)children (E)like olive plants
All around your table.
4 Behold, thus shall the man be blessed
Who fears the Lord.
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- Psalm 128:2 Fruit of the labor
Psalm 127:3-5
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3 Behold, (A)children are a heritage from the Lord,
(B)The fruit of the womb is a (C)reward.
4 Like arrows in the hand of a warrior,
So are the children of one’s youth.
5 (D)Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them;
(E)They shall not be ashamed,
But shall speak with their enemies in the gate.
Genesis 43:8
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8 Then Judah said to Israel his father, “Send the lad 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, “Indeed I have heard that there is grain in Egypt; go down to that place and buy for us there, that we may (A)live and not die.”
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Genesis 41:57
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57 (A)So all countries came to Joseph in Egypt to (B)buy grain, because the famine was severe in all lands.
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