¹⁸ Then Joseph said to them the third day, “Do this and live, ^(A)for I fear God:

^43 (A)You shall not rule over him ^(B)with ^[a]rigor, but you ^(C)shall fear your God.

¹⁵ But the former governors who were before me laid burdens on the people, and took from them bread and wine, besides forty shekels of silver. Yes, even their servants bore rule over the people, but ^(A)I did not do so, because of the ^(B)fear of God.

¹¹ And Abraham said, “Because I thought, surely ^(A)the fear of God is not in this place; and ^(B)they will kill me on account of my wife.

⁴ And he would not for a while; but afterward he said within himself, ‘Though I do not fear God nor regard man,

² saying: “There was in a certain city a judge who did not fear God nor ^[a]regard man.

⁹ Then I said, “What you are doing is not good. Should you not walk ^(A)in the fear of our God ^(B)because of the reproach of the nations, our enemies?