Why should we die before your very eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land in exchange for food, and we, with our land, will become Pharaoh’s slaves. Give us seed that we may live and not die. Then the land will not become desolate.”
 A ti bè na ghès nɨn kfɨtɨ̂ mesì kɨ nô tèyn ɨ̀ vìsi gvêyn seysɨ wa ki kɨ ki? Lì ghes ɨ baʼsɨ kɨ nɨ̀ gvêyn seysɨ ɨ fu ɨfwo ɨyɨnɨ sɨ̂ ghès. Fu ngœ̀ sɨ̂ ghès butì a gvêyn seysɨ kasi nà ghɨ ta nse ìyum, a ghèsɨ̀ kfɨtɨ.”