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Thou—come apart with me, and let us reason.

Alas! my lord will get the advantage. In my lord's hands I am but an innocent babe.

The gods shield me from many such!

[From the pit in a sort of chant] The Lord my God; the Almighty God, He shall lift me out of the mire.

[Starting] What is that?

It is Joseph! He is alive!

If the strangers hear him—!

— They digged a pit for me and cast me in, But I shall arise and confound them, For my God is the only God, The gods of the strangers are stocks and stones: But my God is Almighty!

[Angrily] Who mocketh at my gods? Who singeth of a God that is greater than mine?

[Who has come to the dried well and he is peering into it] There is one in the well—

Have him forth!

He standeth among serpents—

[As if fascinated] He standeth among the serpents?—Have him brought forth quickly!