Some were saying,“ We, our sons, and our daughters are numerous. Let us get grain so that we can eat and live.”

有的说：“我们和儿女人口众多，要去得粮食度命”；

有的说：“我们和儿女人口众多，必须得粮食吃，才能活下去。”

有的说：“我们和儿女人口众多，必须得粮食吃，才能活下去。”

有的说：“我们和我们的儿女人口众多，需要粮食来活命。”

有些人说：“我们和儿女人口众多，给我们五谷餬口，可以存活。”

有的說：「我們和兒女人口眾多，要去得糧食度命」；

有的說：「我們和兒女人口眾多，必須得糧食吃，才能活下去。」

有的說：「我們和兒女人口眾多，必須得糧食吃，才能活下去。」

有的說：「我們和我們的兒女人口眾多，需要糧食來活命。」

有些人說：“我們和兒女人口眾多，給我們五穀餬口，可以存活。”

有的說：『我們已拿我們的兒女為質當去得五穀喫、來度活了。』

或曰、我及子女人多、當得穀食之以生存、

或曰、我已頻鬻子女、易穀養生。

或曰、我與子女人數甚多、當鬻子女以糴榖、食而得生、

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

Some of them were saying,“ There are now many of us. We have many sons and daughters. We have to get some grain so we can eat and stay alive.”

For there were those who said,“ With our sons and our daughters, we are many. So let us get grain, that we may eat and keep alive.”

They were saying,“ We have such large families. We need more food to survive.”

Some were saying,“ We, our sons, and our daughters are numerous. Let us get grain so that we can eat and live.”

For there were those who said,“ We, our sons, and our daughters are many; therefore let’s get grain so that we may eat and live.”

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.”

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

For 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.

There were those who said,“ With our sons and daughters, we are many. We must obtain grain in order to eat and stay alive.”

For there were some who said,“ We, our sons and our daughters, are many. Let us get grain, that we may eat and live.”

If you don’t listen, and if you don’t take it to heart to honor My name,” says Yahweh of Hosts,“ I will send a curse among you, and I will curse your blessings. In fact, I have already begun to curse them because you are not taking it to heart.

Then Judah said to his father Israel,“ Send the boy with me. We will be on our way so that we may live and not die— neither we, nor you, nor our children.

Every nation came to Joseph in Egypt to buy grain, for the famine was severe in every land.

Listen,” he went on,“ I have heard there is grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy some for us so that we will live and not die.”

You will surely eat what your hands have worked for. You will be happy, and it will go well for you.Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house, your sons, like young olive trees around your table.In this very way the man who fears the Lord will be blessed.

Sons are indeed a heritage from the Lord, children, a reward.Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the sons born in one’s youth.Happy is the man who has filled his quiver with them. Such men will never be put to shame when they speak with their enemies at the city gate.