"You have worn the robes of Isis and worshipped in the temple of the gods of the Egyptians.

The curse of the God of Israel be on you and that which is born of you." I sprang at him but he was gone.

Then we bore Merapi home swooning.
So this trouble passed by, but from that time forward Merapi would not suffer her son to be taken out of her sight.
"Why do you make so much of him, Lady ?" I asked one day.
"Because I would love him well while he is here, Friend," she answered, "but of this say nothing to his father." A while went by and we heard that still Pharaoh would not let the Israelites go.

Then the Prince Seti sent Bakenkhonsu and myself to Tanis to see Pharaoh and to say to him: "I seek nothing for myself and I forget those evils which you would have worked on me through jealousy.

But I say unto you that if you will not let these strangers go great and terrible things shall befall you and all Egypt.