Have we Pharaoh's leave to deliver our message ?" "Speak on, Prince." "O Pharaoh, many moons have gone by, since last we looked upon each other face to face, on that day when my father, the good god Meneptah, disinherited me, and afterwards fled hence to Osiris.

Pharaoh will remember why I was thus cut off from the royal root of Egypt.

It was because of the matter of these Israelites, who in my judgment had been evilly dealt by, and should be suffered to leave our land.

The good god Meneptah, being so advised by you and others, O Pharaoh, would have smitten the Israelites with the sword, making an end of them, and to this he demanded my assent as the Heir of Egypt.

I refused that assent and was cast out, and since then, you, O Pharaoh, have worn the double crown, while I have dwelt as a citizen of Memphis, living upon such lands and revenues as are my own.