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I tried to close my ears to the strange worshipful chanting and fix my mind on God, but the Egyptians_ idolatry weighed down my weary shoulders and brought tears to my closed eyes.

For a brief moment the previous day, I__ felt a flicker of kinship with him because of my own barrenness, but he brandished his brokenness like a sword, ready to cut anyone who displeased him because someone in Pharaoh__ household had once cut him.