He who lies there," and she swept her hand towards the corpse, turning her eyes away, "was my father, an elder of Israel.

The captain Khuaka came when the corn was young to the Land of Goshen to choose those who should work for Pharaoh.
He wished to take me into his house.

My father refused because from my childhood I had been affianced to a man of Israel; also because it is not lawful under the law for our people to intermarry with your people.
Then the captain Khuaka seized my father, although he was of high rank and beyond the age to work for Pharaoh, and he was taken away, as I think, because he would not suffer me to wed Khuaka.

A while later I dreamed that my father was sick.

Thrice I dreamed it and ran away to Tanis to visit him.