On the third day Joseph said to them, “Do this and you will live, for I fear God:
You shall not rule over him ruthlessly but shall fear your God.
The former governors who were before me laid heavy burdens on the people and took from them for their daily ration forty shekels of silver. Even their servants lorded it over the people. But I did not do so, because of the fear of God.
He said, “In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected man.
Abraham said, “I did it because I thought, ‘There is no fear of God at all in this place, and they will kill me because of my wife.’
For a while he refused, but afterward he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God nor respect man,
So I said, “The thing that you are doing is not good. Ought you not to walk in the fear of our God to prevent the taunts of the nations our enemies?
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