²⁵ There was a great famine^(A) in the city; the siege lasted so long that a donkey’s head sold for eighty shekels^[a] of silver, and a quarter of a cab^[b] of seed pods^[c](B) for five shekels.^[d]

⁴ “Skin for skin!” Satan replied. “A man will give all he has^(A) for his own life.