Nehemiah 5:2 in the World English Bible
For there were some who said, “We, our sons and our daughters, are many. Let us get grain, that we may eat and live.”
Context
1 And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.
2 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.
3 Some also there were that said, We have mortgaged our lands, vineyards, and houses, that we might buy corn, because of the dearth.