¹⁹ Why should we perish before your eyes^(A)—we and our land as well? Buy us and our land in exchange for food,^(B) and we with our land will be in bondage to Pharaoh.^(C) Give us seed so that we may live and not die,^(D) and that the land may not become desolate.”

²⁵ “You have saved our lives,” they said. “May we find favor in the eyes of our lord;^(A) we will be in bondage to Pharaoh.”^(B)