1Now the Memphian woman was looking through a window at me while I was being beaten, for her house was near, and she sent unto him saying: Thy judgement is unjust; for thou dost punish a free man who hath been stolen, as though he were a transgressor.
2And when I made no change in my statement, though I was beaten, he ordered me to be imprisoned, until, he said, the owners of the boy should come.
3And the woman said unto her husband: Wherefore dost thou detain the captive and well-born lad in bonds, who ought rather to be set at liberty, and be waited upon?
4For she wished to see me out of a desire of sin, but I was ignorant concerning all these things.
5And he said to her: It is not the custom of the Egyptians to take that which belongeth to others before proof is given.
6This, therefore, he said concerning the merchant; but as for the lad, he must be imprisoned.