² For there were that said, We, our sons and our daughters, are many: let us get grain, that we may eat and live.

⁵⁷ All countries came into Egypt, to Joseph, to buy grain, because the famine was severe in all the earth.

² He said, "Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there, and buy for us from there, so that we may live, and not die."

⁸ Judah said to Israel, his father, "Send the boy with me, and we will arise and go, so that we may live, and not die, both we, and you, and also our little ones.

³ Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward.

⁴ As arrows in the hand of a mighty man, So are the children of youth.

⁵ Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them. They won't be disappointed when they speak with their enemies in the gate.

² For you will eat the labor of your hands. You will be happy, and it will be well with you.

³ Your wife will be as a fruitful vine, In the innermost parts of your house; Your children like olive plants, Around your table.

⁴ Behold, thus is the man blessed who fears Yahweh.

² If you will not listen, and if you will not lay it to heart, to give glory to my name," says Yahweh of Hosts, "then will I send the curse on you, and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have cursed them already, because you do not lay it to heart.