But under our laws, even if Laban died, as might happen to so violent a man, she could wed no one who is not a Hebrew." "I thought she told us that her mother was a Syrian." "That is so, Scribe Ana.

She was a beautiful captive of war whom Nathan came to love and made his wife, and the daughter takes after her.

Still she is Hebrew and of the Hebrew faith and congregation.

Had it not been so, she might have shone like a star, nay, like the very moon after which she is named, perhaps in the court of Pharaoh himself." "As the great queen Taia did, she who changed the religion of Egypt to the worship of one god in a bygone generation," I suggested.
"I have heard of her, Scribe Ana.

She was a wondrous woman, beautiful too by her statues.