Joseph said to them the third day, “Do this, and live, for I fear God.
Parallel translations
- KJV And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do, and live; for I fear God:
- BSB and on the third day he said to them, “I fear God. So do this and you will live:
- NKJV Then Joseph said to them the third day, “Do this and live, for I fear God:
- NASB Now Joseph said to them on the third day, “Do this and live, for I fear God:
- NLT On the third day Joseph said to them, “I am a God-fearing man. If you do as I say, you will live.
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- Lev 25:43You shall not rule over him with harshness, but shall fear your God.
- Neh 5:15But the former governors who were before me were supported by the people, and took bread and wine from them, plus forty shekels of silver; yes, even their servants ruled over the people; but I didn’t do so, because of the fear of God.
- Luke 18:2saying, “There was a judge in a certain city who didn’t fear God, and didn’t respect man.
- Gen 20:11Abraham said, “Because I thought, ‘Surely the fear of God is not in this place. They will kill me for my wife’s sake.’
- Neh 5:9Also I said, “The thing that you do is not good. Shouldn’t you walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies?
- Luke 18:4He wouldn’t for a while, but afterward he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God, nor respect man,
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