"Touch not that people, my lord, for their God is stronger than
ours."

"Their God is that of the Chaldaeans. Let our gods fight. I have
spoken; thou hast heard; I add nothing and retract nothing."

"My Lord, thou seest one sun in the sky, and believest that it
shines over all nations: do you not believe that there is one Lord
of the heaven who rules the destinies of all nations?"

"It should be so, but the Lord of heaven has made me ruler over this
land, and now I rule it."

"Thou rulest it, my lord, but thou rulest not wind and weather; thou
canst not raise the water of the Nile by one inch, and thou canst
not prevent the crops failing again this year."

"Failing? What does the Nilometer say?"

"My lord, the sun has entered the sign of the Balance, and the water
is sinking already. It means famine."

"Then I will destroy all superfluous and strange mouths which take
the bread from the children of the country. I will annihilate the
Hebrews."

"Let them go free, my lord."

"I will summon the midwives, and have every boy that is born of a