New Revised Standard Version
Divide your means seven ways, or even eight, for you do not know what disaster may happen on earth.

Contemporary English Version
Share what you have with seven or eight others, because you never know when disaster may strike.

New American Bible
Make seven, or even eight portions; you know not what misfortune may come upon the earth.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Give a portion to seven, and also to eight: for thou knowest not what evil shall be upon the earth.

Give a portion to seven, and also to eight: for thou knowest not what evil shall be upon the earth.

a portion

Nehemiah 8:10 And he said to them: Go, eat fat meats, and drink sweet wine, and send portions to them that have not prepared for themselves: because it is the holy day of the Lord, and be not sad: for the joy of the Lord is our strength.

Esther 9:19,22 But those Jews that dwelt in towns not walled and in villages, appointed the fourteenth day of the month Adar for banquets and gladness, so as to rejoice on that day, and send one another portions of their banquets and meats. . . .

Psalm 112:9 He hath distributed, he hath given to the poor: his justice remaineth for ever and ever: his horn shall be exalted in glory.

Luke 6:30-35 Give to every one that asketh thee: and of him that taketh away thy goods, ask them not again. . . .

1 Timothy 6:18,19 To do good, to be rich in good work, to give easily, to communicate to others, . . .

seven

Job 5:19 In six troubles he shall deliver thee, and in the seventh, evil shall not touch thee.

Proverbs 6:16 Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,

Micah 5:5 And he shall stand, and feed in the strength of the Lord, in the height of the name of the Lord, his God: and they shall be converted, for now shall he be magnified even to the ends of the earth.

Matthew 18:22 Jesus saith to him: I say not to thee, till seven times; but till seventy times seven times.

Luke 17:4 And if he sin against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day be converted unto thee, saying: I repent: forgive him.

for

Daniel 4:27 And the king answered, and said: Is not this the great Babylon, which I have built, to be the seat of the kingdom, by the strength of my power, and in the glory of my excellence?

Acts 11:28-30 And one of them named Agabus, rising up, signified by the Spirit that there should be a great famine over the whole world, which came to pass under Claudius. . . .

Galatians 6:1 Brethren, and if a man be overtaken in any fault, you, who are spiritual, instruct such a one in the spirit of meekness, considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.

Ephesians 5:16 But as wise: redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

Hebrews 13:3 Remember them that are in bands, as if you were bound with them: and them that labour, as being yourselves also in the body.