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Now Joseph said to them on the third day, "Do this and live, for
aI fear God:
a
Genesis 39:9, Leviticus 25:43, Nehemiah 5:15
Genesis 39
9
"aThere is no one greater in this house than I, and he has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. How then could I do this great evil and bsin against God?"
Leviticus 25
43
'aYou shall not rule over him with severity, but are to revere your God.
Nehemiah 5
15
But the former governors who were before me laid burdens on the people and took from them bread and wine besides forty shekels of silver; even their servants domineered the people. But I did not do so abecause of the fear of God.