Did the stars give it to you?
Have you obeyed me and asked them of the future ?" "Certainly, certainly.

How could I disobey?
I observed them all last night, and have been working out the results till this moment; indeed, they are not yet finished.

Question and I will answer." "You will answer, yes, but what will you answer?
Not the truth, I fancy, because you are a coward, though if anyone can read the truth, it is you.

Man," he added fiercely, "if you dare to lie to me I will cut your head off and take it to Pharaoh as a traitor's; and your body shall lie, not in that fine tomb which you have made, but in the belly of a crocodile whence there is no resurrection.

Do you understand?
Then let us come to the point.