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 Nehemiah 5:5.
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Nehemiah 5:2
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.