He also was dressed in a sheepskin cloak and carried a staff in his hand.
Now a whisper rose among the people and the whisper said: "The prophets of the men of Israel! The prophets of the men of Israel!" The two stood before the throne and looked at Pharaoh, making no obeisance.

Pharaoh looked at them and was silent.

For a long space they stood thus in the midst of a great quiet, but Pharaoh would not speak, and none of his officers seemed to dare to open their mouths.

At length the first of the prophets spoke in a clear, cold voice as some conqueror might do.
"You know me, Pharaoh, and my errand." "I know you," answered Pharaoh slowly, "as well I may, seeing that we played together when we were little.

You are that Hebrew whom my sister, she who sleeps in Osiris, took to be as a son to her, giving to you a name that means 'drawn forth' because she drew you forth as an infant from among the reeds of Nile.