¹² “Do not lay a hand on the boy,” he said. “Do not do anything to him. Now I know that you fear God,^(A) because you have not withheld from me your son, your only son.^(B)”

⁹ No one is greater in this house than I am.^(A) My master has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. How then could I do such a wicked thing and sin against God?”^(B)

¹⁷ The midwives, however, feared^(A) God and did not do what the king of Egypt had told them to do;^(B) they let the boys live.

⁴³ Do not rule over them ruthlessly,^(A) but fear your God.^(B)

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.