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Parallel NEH 5:2

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Text critical issues=none Clarity of original=clear Importance to us=normal(All still tentative.)

OET (OET-RV)Some of them complained, “There’s a lot of us when we include our sons and daughters. We need grain so we can eat and stay alive.”

OET-LVAnd_there_were those_who were_saying sons_of_our and_daughters_of_our we are_many and_get grain and_we_eat and_live.

UHBוְ⁠יֵשׁ֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר אֹמְרִ֔ים בָּנֵ֥י⁠נוּ וּ⁠בְנֹתֵ֖י⁠נוּ אֲנַ֣חְנוּ רַבִּ֑ים וְ⁠נִקְחָ֥ה דָגָ֖ן וְ⁠נֹאכְלָ֥ה וְ⁠נִחְיֶֽה׃
   (və⁠yēsh ʼₐsher ʼomrim bānēy⁠nū ū⁠ⱱənotēy⁠nū ʼₐnaḩnū rabim və⁠niqḩāh dāgān və⁠noʼkəlāh və⁠niḩyeh.)

Key: khaki:verbs.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the OET-RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).

BrLXXNo BrLXX NEH book available

BrTrAnd some said, We are numerous with our sons and our daughters; so we will take corn, and eat, and live.

ULTAnd there were those who said, “Our sons and our daughters, we are many. And let us take grain, so we can eat, and we can live.”

USTSome of them began, “We have many children. We need to get a lot of food to feed them all.”

BSBSome were saying, “We [and] our sons and daughters are numerous. We must get grain in order to eat and stay alive.”

MSB (Same as above)


OEBFor there were those who were saying, ’We must give our sons and our daughters in pledge to secure grain that we may eat and live.’

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

WMBB (Same as above)

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

LSVindeed, there are [those] who are saying, “Our sons, and our daughters, we—are many, and we receive grain, and eat, and live.”

FBVThey were complaining, “Our families are so large we need more food[fn] so we can eat and live.”


5:2 “Food”: literally, “grain.”

T4TSome/One of them said, “We have many children. So we need a lot of grain to be able to eat and continue to live.”

LEBNo LEB NEH book available

BBEFor there were some who said, We, our sons and our daughters, are a great number: let us get grain, so that we may have food for our needs.

MoffNo Moff NEH book available

JPSFor there were that said: 'We, our sons and our daughters, are many; let us get for them corn, that we may eat and live.'

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

DRAAnd there were some that said: Our sons and our daughters are very many: Yet us take up corn for the price of them, and let us eat and live.

YLTyea, there are who are saying, 'Our sons, and our daughters, we — are many, and we receive corn, and eat, and live.'

DrbyAnd there were that said, We, our sons and our daughters, are many, and we must procure corn that we may eat and live.

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

SLTAnd there is which saying, Our sons and our daughters, we being many: and we will take grain and we will eat and live.

WbstrFor 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.

KJB-1769For 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.

KJB-1611For there were that said, We, our sonnes, and our daughters are many: therefore wee take vp corne for them, that we may eat, and liue.
   (Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation)

BshpsNo Bshps NEH book available

GnvaFor there were that said, We, our sonnes and our daughters are many, therefore we take vp corne, that we may eate and liue.
   (For there were that said, We, our sons and our daughters are many, therefore we take up corn, that we may eat and live. )

CvdlNo Cvdl NEH book available

WyclNo Wycl NEH book available

LuthNo Luth NEH book available

ClVgEt erant qui dicerent: Filii nostri et filiæ nostræ multæ sunt nimis: accipiamus pro pretio eorum frumentum, et comedamus, et vivamus.
   (And they_were who to_saynt: Children our and daughters our many are too_much: I_will_acceptus for pretio their corn, and comedamus, and vivamus. )

RP-GNTNo RP-GNT NEH book available


HAPHebrew accents and phrasing: See Allan Johnson's Hebrew accents and phrasing analysis.

TSNTyndale Study Notes:

5:2 Some farmers had diverted their efforts from raising crops to building the wall, leaving their large families in need of food to survive. Someone had to feed their families, or they would have to stop work on the wall and go home to work in their fields.


UTNuW Translation Notes:

וְ⁠יֵשׁ֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר אֹמְרִ֔ים

and,there_were which/who saying

Verses 2, 3, 4, and 5 do not seem to be different complaints that people brought to Nehemiah separately. Rather, the whole group seems to be complaining that because they need to get food for their families, wealthier and more powerful Jews are exploiting them. They are forcing them to take mortgages and loans and even sell their children into slavery. Nehemiah is probably depicting one speaker after another in the crowd adding details to this picture. You could suggest this to the readers of your translation by introducing these comments with a translation such as, “some of them began to say”

בָּנֵ֥י⁠נוּ וּ⁠בְנֹתֵ֖י⁠נוּ אֲנַ֣חְנוּ רַבִּ֑ים

sons_of,our and,daughters_of,our we many

Alternate translation: [We have many children]

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / synecdoche

וְ⁠נִקְחָ֥ה דָגָ֖ן

and,get grain

This does not mean only grain. The people complaining to Nehemiah are using one kind of food, grain, the staple of their diet, to refer to all the foods they would need to eat. Alternate translation: [we need food]

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit

וְ⁠נִקְחָ֥ה דָגָ֖ן

and,get grain

The implication is that because the families are large, a lot of food is needed. If it would be helpful in your language, you could say this explicitly. Alternate translation: [we need to get a lot of food]

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / doublet

וְ⁠נֹאכְלָ֥ה וְ⁠נִחְיֶֽה

and=we_eat and,live

These two short phrases mean similar things. The people use them together to emphasize the urgency and importance of having food. If it would be helpful in your language, you could combine these phrases. Alternate translation: [to get enough food to stay alive]

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