2For there were that said, |We, our sons and our daughters, are many. Let us get grain, that we may eat and live.|


In Context

1 Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brothers the Jews.

2 For there were that said, |We, our sons and our daughters, are many. Let us get grain, that we may eat and live.|

3 Some also there were that said, |We are mortgaging our fields, and our vineyards, and our houses. Let us get grain, because of the famine.|

4 There were also some who said, |We have borrowed money for the king's tribute using our fields and our vineyards as collateral.

Nehemiah 5:2 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:2For 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.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

5:2Some were saying, "We and our sons and daughters are numerous; in order for us to eat and stay alive, we must get grain."

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

5:2And there were some that said: Our sons and our daughters are very many: Yet us take up corn for the price of them, and let us eat and live.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

5:2For there were that said, We, our sons and our daughters, are many: let us get grain, that we may eat and live.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:2And there were that said, We, our sons and our daughters, are many, and we must procure corn that we may eat and live.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

5:2For there were that said, We, our sons and our daughters, are many: let us get corn, that we may eat and live.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:2For 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.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

5:2yea, there are who are saying, 'Our sons, and our daughters, we — are many, and we receive corn, and eat, and live.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:2For 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.