¹⁹ If you are true men, let one of you be kept in prison, while you go and take grain for the needs of your families;

¹⁵ But earlier rulers who were before me made the people responsible for their upkeep, and took from them bread and wine at the rate of forty shekels of silver; and even their servants were lords over the people: but I did not do so, because of the fear of God.