² For 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.

⁵⁷ And all lands sent to Egypt, to Joseph, to get grain, for the need was great over all the earth.

² And he said, I have had news that there is grain in Egypt: go down there and get grain for us, so that life and not death may be ours.

⁸ Put him into my care and make me responsible for him: if I do not give him safely back to you, let mine be the sin for ever.

³ See, sons are a heritage from the Lord; the fruit of the body is his reward.

⁴ Like arrows in the hand of a man of war, are the children of the young.

⁵ Happy is the man who has a good store of them; he will not be put to shame, but his cause will be supported by them against his haters.

² You will have the fruit of the work of your hands: happy will you be, and all will be well for you.

³ Your wife will be like a fertile vine in the inmost parts of your house: your children will be like olive plants round your table.

⁴ See! this is the blessing of the worshipper of the Lord.

² If you will not give ear and take it to heart, to give glory to my name, says the Lord of armies, then I will send the curse on you and will put a curse on your blessing: truly, even now I have put a curse on it, because you do not take it to heart.