⁷ And they said to him, “If you will be good to this people and please them, then speak good words to them. Then they will be your servants forever.”^{[a] 8} But he forsook the advice of the elders that advised him and took counsel of the young men who had grown up with him who were serving^[b] before him. ⁹ And he said to them, “What do you advise that we should say in return to this people, who said to me, ‘Lighten the yoke that your father has put upon us’?”