Nehemiah 5:2
For there were that said, We, our sons and our daughters, are many: let us get grain, that we may eat and live.
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- Psalm 128:2–4 For thou shalt eat the labor of thy hands: Happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee. Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine, In the innermost parts of thy house; Thy children like olive plants, Round about thy table. Behold, thus shall the man be blessed That feareth Jehovah.
- Malachi 2:2 If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith Jehovah of hosts, then will I send the curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings; yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay it to heart.
- Genesis 41:57 And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph to buy grain, because the famine was sore in all the earth.