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Ne 5:2 King James 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.

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Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]
Are many - A slight emendation brings this verse into exact parallelism with the next, and gives the sense - "We have pledged our sons and our daughters, that we might get corn, and eat and live." Compare Neh 5:5.
 
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5 Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought unto bondage already: neither is it in our power to redeem them; for other men have our lands and vineyards.