If they would think it, let them, but He is
the all-God, of all the earth, the One God--thy God as well as mine."
"Mine!" Kenkenes exclaimed.
"Thou hast said."
"Now, by all things worshipful, this is news. I had ever thought that
our gods are those to whom we bow. Either thou sayest wrong or I have
been remiss in my devotions."
"Nay, listen," she said earnestly, stepping to his side. "Already have
I told thee of the captain of Israel. He was reared among princes in
the house of the Pharaoh, and he is learned in all the wisdom of Egypt.
He instructeth the elders concerning Jehovah, and from mouth to mouth
his wisdom traverseth till it reacheth the ears of the young. This,
then, I have from the lips of Moses, who speaketh naught but the truth.
In early times all on earth had perished for wickedness by the sending
of the One God, save a holy man and his three sons. These men
worshiped the God of Abraham, who was the father of Israel. One of the
sons founded thy race, saith Moses, and one established mine. The
tribes that went into Egypt worshiped the same God. Lo, is it not
written in the early tombs? So Moses testifieth, but if thou doubtest,
go question thy historians. And some of the tribes called that God Ra,
others, Ptah, and yet others, Amen.
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