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So they brought their livestock to Joseph, and Joseph gave them ^(F1)food in exchange for the horses and the ^(F2)flocks and the herds and the donkeys; and he ^(F3)fed them with ^(F1)food in exchange for all their livestock ^(F4)that year.

But when that year ended, they came to him the ^(F1)next year and said to him, "We will not hide from my lord the fact that our money is all spent, and the ^(F2)livestock are my lord's. There is nothing left ^(F3)for my lord except our bodies and our lands.

"Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for ^(F1)food, and we and our land will be slaves to Pharaoh. So give us seed, so that we may live and not die, and that the land may not be desolate."