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

^43 (A)You shall not rule over him ^(B)ruthlessly but ^(C)shall fear your God.

¹⁵ The former governors who were before me laid heavy burdens on the people and took from them for their daily ration^[a] forty shekels^[b] of silver. Even their servants lorded it over the people. But I did not do so, ^(A)because of the fear of God.

² He said, “In a certain city there was a judge who ^(A)neither feared God nor respected man.

¹¹ Abraham said, “I did it because I thought, ^(A)‘There is no fear of God at all in this place, and ^(B)they will kill me because of my wife.’

⁴ For a while he refused, but afterward he said to himself, ^(A)‘Though I neither fear God nor respect man,

⁹ So I said, “The thing that you are doing is not good. Ought you not to walk ^(A)in the fear of our God ^(B)to prevent the taunts of the nations our enemies?