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

⁴³ Show your fear of God by not treating them harshly.

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.

² “There was a judge in a certain city,” he said, “who neither feared God nor cared about people.

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

⁴ The judge ignored her for a while, but finally he said to himself, ‘I don’t fear God or care about people,

⁹ Then I pressed further, “What you are doing is not right! Should you not walk in the fear of our God in order to avoid being mocked by enemy nations?