^9 [a](A)There is no one greater in this house than I, and he has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. How then could I do this great evil and ^(B)sin against God?”

^43 (A)You shall not rule over him with severity, but are to revere your God.

¹⁵ But the former governors who were before me ^[a]laid burdens on the people and took from them bread and wine besides forty shekels of silver; even their servants domineered the people. But I did not do so ^(A)because of the fear of God.