¹⁸ And on the third day Joseph said to them, Do this, if you would keep your lives: for I am a god-fearing man:

⁴³ Do not be a hard master to him, but have the fear of God before you.

¹⁵ But earlier rulers who were before me made the people responsible for their upkeep, and took from them bread and wine at the rate of forty shekels of silver; and even their servants were lords over the people: but I did not do so, because of the fear of God.

¹¹ And Abraham said, Because it seemed to me that there was no fear of God in this place, and that they might put me to death because of my wife.

⁹ And I said, What you are doing is not good: is it not the more necessary for you to go in the fear of our God, because of the shame which the nations may put on us?

² Saying, There was a judge in a certain town, who had no fear of God or respect for man:

⁴ And for a time he would not: but later, he said to himself, Though I have no fear of God or respect for man,