He added, &#8220;Just name your wages &#8211; I&#8217;ll pay whatever you want.&#8221;<n id="1" />p>

Then I will confirm my covenant<n id="1" /> between me and you, and I will give you a multitude of descendants.&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

You know that I&#8217;ve worked for your father as hard as I could,<n id="1" />

<p class="poetry">Ask me,p> <p class="poetry">and I will give you the nations as your inheritance,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">the ends of the earth as your personal property.p>

<p class="poetry">I wear sackclothp> <p class="poetry">and they ridicule me.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">So I defiled your holy princes,p> <p class="poetry">and handed Jacob over to destruction,p> <p class="poetry">and subjected<n id="1" /> Israel to humiliating abuse.&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">Then Joseph said, &#8220;If your money is gone, bring your livestock, and I will give you food<n id="1" /> in exchange for<n id="2" /> your livestock.&#8221;

The king then said to the prophet, &#8220;Come home with me and have something to eat. I&#8217;d like to give a present.&#8221;

<p class="poetry">Certainly<n id="1" /> you do not want a sacrifice, or else I would offer it;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">you do not desire a burnt sacrifice.<n id="3" />p>

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

So I turned my attention<n id="1" /> to the Lord God<n id="2" /> to implore him by prayer and requests, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.<n id="3" />

I gave you your master&#8217;s house, and put your master&#8217;s wives into your arms.<n id="1" /> 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,<n id="1" /> and I&#8217;ll give<n id="2" /> whatever you ask<n id="3" /> of me. Just give me the young woman as my wife!&#8221;p>

Get your father and your households and come to me! Then I will give you<n id="1" /> the best land in Egypt and you will eat<n id="2" /> the best<n id="3" /> of the land.&#8217;

<p class="bodytext">And from there they traveled<n id="1" /> to Beer;<n id="2" /> that is the well where the <sc>Lordsc> spoke to Moses, &#8220;Gather the people and I will give them water.&#8221;

I rescued you from Egypt&#8217;s power<n id="1" /> 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, &#8220;Come here to me, so I can give your flesh to the birds of the sky and the wild animals of the field!&#8221;<n id="1" />p>

Now make a deal<n id="1" /> with my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, provided you can find enough riders for them.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then in the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, when wine was brought to me,<n id="1" /> I took the wine and gave it to the king. Previously<n id="2" /> I had not been depressed<n id="3" /> in the king&#8217;s presence.<n id="4" />

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.