¹¹ Abraham replied, “I thought, ‘This is a godless place. They will want my wife and will kill me to get her.’

¹⁵ The former governors, in contrast, had laid heavy burdens on the people, demanding a daily ration of food and wine, besides forty pieces^[a] of silver. Even their assistants took advantage of the people. But because I feared God, I did not act that way.

⁷ When the men who lived there asked Isaac about his wife, Rebekah, he said, “She is my sister.” He was afraid to say, “She is my wife.” He thought, “They will kill me to get her, because she is so beautiful.”

¹² When the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife. Let’s kill him; then we can have her!’

Psalm 36

For the choir director: A psalm of David, the servant of the Lord.

¹⁸ On the third day Joseph said to them, “I am a God-fearing man. If you do as I say, you will live.

¹² “Don’t lay a hand on the boy!” the angel said. “Do not hurt him in any way, for now I know that you truly fear God. You have not withheld from me even your son, your only son.”