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160 THE EXODUS PAPYRI.
and my liberality towards them doubly double.
I urged that thou gavest good bread by fifties.
My work was to reach their leaders; then I spoke,
and was quite decided, at the spot where he stood,
urging that he had got straw for the department
of [gap], after that he had been disallowed the
making the evening meal. I contrived [a gap].
I urged that thou hadst allowed fishes, to flavour
the lumps in his hand, from thy good majesty."
Curious enough this! and only clearly compre-
hensible on the supposition of a people situated
much as the Jews were, in the brickfields. The
scribe offering extra rations, to prevent discontent
among these people, may probably be explained on
the supposition that the central legitimate autho-
rity desired to retain the Palestine races in the
Delta, and that the Usurper alone, in opposition
to the interests of Egypt, allowed their departure.
The distinguishing between the different political
parties in question will also shew that the Jews
could have looked back, as we know they did, to
the good fare they enjoyed in Egypt, and yet to
the persecutions they endured there. The good
things would come from Seti, as a bribe to retain
them; the hard blows from his nephew, Menep-
tah II.
The same general subject is kept up in the fol-
lowing. Avari, or Eber, is here the name of a
man. We have had nothing hitherto from any
royal scribe, but the name is too common a one to
identify its owner.
and my liberality towards them doubly double.
I urged that thou gavest good bread by fifties.
My work was to reach their leaders; then I spoke,
and was quite decided, at the spot where he stood,
urging that he had got straw for the department
of [gap], after that he had been disallowed the
making the evening meal. I contrived [a gap].
I urged that thou hadst allowed fishes, to flavour
the lumps in his hand, from thy good majesty."
Curious enough this! and only clearly compre-
hensible on the supposition of a people situated
much as the Jews were, in the brickfields. The
scribe offering extra rations, to prevent discontent
among these people, may probably be explained on
the supposition that the central legitimate autho-
rity desired to retain the Palestine races in the
Delta, and that the Usurper alone, in opposition
to the interests of Egypt, allowed their departure.
The distinguishing between the different political
parties in question will also shew that the Jews
could have looked back, as we know they did, to
the good fare they enjoyed in Egypt, and yet to
the persecutions they endured there. The good
things would come from Seti, as a bribe to retain
them; the hard blows from his nephew, Menep-
tah II.
The same general subject is kept up in the fol-
lowing. Avari, or Eber, is here the name of a
man. We have had nothing hitherto from any
royal scribe, but the name is too common a one to
identify its owner.