15 And when the buyers had run out of money, all Egypt came to Joseph, saying: 'Give us bread. Why should we die in your sight, lacking money?'
16 And he responded to them: 'Bring me your cattle, and I will give food to you in exchange for them, if you do not have money.'
17 And when they had brought them, he gave them food for their horses, and sheep, and oxen, and donkeys. And he sustained them in that year in exchange for their cattle.
18 Likewise, they came the second year, and they said to him: 'We will not conceal from our lord that our money is gone; likewise our cattle are gone. Neither are you unaware that we have nothing left but our bodies and our land.
19 Therefore, why should you watch us die? Both we and our land will be yours. Buy us into royal servitude, but provide seed, lest by the dying off of cultivators the land be reduced to a wilderness.'
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