He added, “Just name your wages – I’ll pay whatever you want.”

Then I will confirm my covenant between me and you, and I will give you a multitude of descendants.”

You know that I’ve worked for your father as hard as I could,

Ask me, and I will give you the nations as your inheritance, the ends of the earth as your personal property.

I wear sackcloth and they ridicule me.

So I defiled your holy princes, and handed Jacob over to destruction, and subjected Israel to humiliating abuse.”

Then Joseph said, “If your money is gone, bring your livestock, and I will give you food in exchange for your livestock.”

The king then said to the prophet, “Come home with me and have something to eat. I’d like to give a present.”

Certainly you do not want a sacrifice, or else I would offer it; you do not desire a burnt sacrifice.

I adorned you with jewelry. I put bracelets on your hands and a necklace around your neck.

So I turned my attention to the Lord God to implore him by prayer and requests, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.

I gave you your master’s house, and put your master’s wives into your arms. I also gave you the house of Israel and Judah. And if all that somehow seems insignificant, I would have given you so much more as well!

You can make the bride price and the gift I must bring very expensive, and I’ll give whatever you ask of me. Just give me the young woman as my wife!”

Get your father and your households and come to me! Then I will give you the best land in Egypt and you will eat the best of the land.’

And from there they traveled to Beer; that is the well where the Lord spoke to Moses, “Gather the people and I will give them water.”

I rescued you from Egypt’s power and from the power of all who oppressed you. I drove them out before you and gave their land to you.

The Philistine said to David, “Come here to me, so I can give your flesh to the birds of the sky and the wild animals of the field!”

Now make a deal with my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, provided you can find enough riders for them.

Then in the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, when wine was brought to me, I took the wine and gave it to the king. Previously I had not been depressed in the king’s presence.

Then I went to the governors of Trans-Euphrates, and I presented to them the letters from the king. The king had sent with me officers of the army and horsemen.