¹² Is not this what ^(A)we said to you in Egypt: ‘Leave us alone that we may serve the Egyptians’? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.”

^3 (A)Therefore now, O Lord, please take my life from me, ^(B)for it is better for me to die than to live.”

⁹ Moses spoke thus to the people of Israel, but they ^(A)did not listen to Moses, because of their broken spirit and harsh slavery.

⁸ When the sun rose, God appointed a scorching ^(A)east wind, ^(B)and the sun beat down on the head of Jonah so that he ^(C)was faint. And he asked that he might die and said, ^(D)“It is better for me to die than to live.”

²¹ and ^(A)they said to them, “The Lord look on you and judge, because you have made us stink in the sight of Pharaoh and his servants, and have put a sword in their hand to kill us.”

⁹ And now, behold, ^(A)the cry of the people of Israel has come to me, and I have also seen the ^(B)oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.

¹⁷ And ^(A)they began to beg Jesus^[a] to depart from their region. ¹⁸ As he was getting into the boat, the man who had been possessed with demons begged him that he might be with him.

⁷ And ^(A)crying out with a loud voice, he said, “What have you to do with me, Jesus, ^(B)Son of ^(C)the Most High God? ^(D)I adjure you by God, do not torment me.”

^24 (A)“What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? ^(B)I know who you are—^(C)the Holy One of God.”