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

¹⁵ But the earlier governors—those preceding me—placed a heavy burden on the people and took forty shekels^[a] of silver from them in addition to food and wine. Their assistants also lorded it over the people. But out of reverence for God^(A) I did not act like that.

Psalm 36^[a]

For the director of music. Of David the servant of the Lord.