¹⁸ When that year was over, they came to him the following year and said, “We cannot hide from our lord the fact that since our money is gone^(A) and our livestock belongs to you,^(B) there is nothing left for our lord except our bodies and our land.

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.”