“Wherefore shall we die before thine eyes, both we and our land? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants unto Pharaoh: and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, that the land be not desolate.”
Why should we perish before your eyes — we and our land as well? Buy us and our land in exchange for food, and we with our land will be in bondage to Pharaoh. Give us seed so that we may live and not die, and that the land may not become desolate. The request — buy us and our land — is the request for the most drastic form of the exchange: the people trading their freedom and land for the survival of one more year. The application: the urgency of the survival request — we and our land will be in bondage, just give us seed — is the urgency of people who have nothing left but their lives.
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