Between that hour and this, O Pharaoh, many griefs have smitten Egypt, and the last of them cost you your first-born, and me mine.

Yet through them all, O Pharaoh, you have refused to let these Hebrews go, as I counselled should be done at the beginning.

At length after the death of the first-born, your decree was issued that they might go.

Yet now you follow them with a great army and purpose to do to them what my father, the good god Meneptah, would have done, had I consented, namely--to destroy them with the sword.

Hear me, Pharaoh!" "I hear; also the case is well if briefly set.