Nehemiah 5:2
Some were saying, “We and our sons and daughters are numerous. We must get grain in order to eat and stay alive.”
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- Psalm 128:2–4 For when you eat the fruit of your labor, blessings and prosperity will be yours. Your wife will be like a fruitful vine flourishing within your house, your sons like olive shoots sitting around your table. In this way indeed shall blessing come to the man who fears the LORD.
- Malachi 2:2 If you do not listen, and if you do not take it to heart to honor My name,” says the LORD of Hosts, “I will send a curse among you, and I will curse your blessings. Yes, I have already begun to curse them, because you are not taking it to heart.
- Genesis 41:57 And every nation came to Joseph in Egypt to buy grain, because the famine was severe over all the earth.