Nehemiah 5:2 Cross References - Coverdale

² And there were some yt sayde: oure sonnes and doughters are to many, let vs take corne for the, & eate, that we maye lyue.

⁵⁷ & all countrees came to Egipte to bye at Ioseph: for the derth was mightie in all landes.

² Beholde, I heare that there is moch corne in Egipte, go downe & bye vs corne, yt we maie lyue, & not dye.

⁸ Then sayde Iuda vnto Israel his father: Let the lad go with me, that we maye get vs vp and take oure iourney, and lyue, and not dye, both we and thou, and oure childre.

³ It is but lost labour that ye ryse vp early, and take no rest, but eate the bred of carefulnesse: for loke to whom it pleaseth him, he geueth it in slepe. ⁴ Lo, children and ye frute of the wombe are an heretage and gift, that cometh of the LORDE. ⁵ Like as the arowes in the hode of the giaute, eue so are the yonge childre. Happie is the ma, yt hath his quyuer full of them: they shal not be ashamed, when they speake with their enemies in the gate.

² For thou shalt eate the laboures of thine owne hondes: o well is the, happie art thou. ³ Thy wife shalbe as a frutefull vyne vpon the walles of thy house. ⁴ Thy children like the olyue braunches roude aboute yi table.

² yf ye will not heare it, ner regarde it, to geue the glory vnto my name (sayeth the LORDE off hoostes) I wil sende a curse vpon you, & will curse youre blessinges: yee curse them will I yf ye do not take hede.