Some were saying, “We and our sons and daughters are numerous. We must get grain in order to eat and stay alive.”
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
For when you eat the fruit of your labor, blessings and prosperity will be yours.
“Look,” he added, “I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy some for us, so that we may live and
And Judah said to his father Israel, “Send the boy with me, and we will go at once, so that we may live and not die—neit
Children are indeed a heritage from the LORD, and the fruit of the womb is His reward.
And every nation came to Joseph in Egypt to buy grain, because the famine was severe over all the earth.