Now when many days had passed, he entered the kitchen, stood where the Lady was, and began to speak to her, saying: " Look, I am yet alive!" She said to him: " Who are you?" He said to her: " I am Bata. I know that when you had the pine felled for Pharaoh, it was on account of me, so that I should not live. look, I am yet alive! I am a bull." The Lady became very frightened because of the speech her husband had made to her. Then he left the kitchen.
His majesty sat down to a day of feasting with her. She poured drink for his majesty, and he was very happy with her. Then she said to his majesty: " swear to me by God, saying ' Whatever she will say, I will listen to it!" He listened to all that she said: " Let me eat of the liver of this bull; for he is good for nothing." So she said to him. He became very vexed over what she had said, and the heart of Pharaoh was very sore.
When it had dawned and another day had come, the king proclaimed a great offering, namely, the sacrifice of the bull. He sent one of the chief royal slaughterers to sacrifice the bull. And when he had been sacrificed and was carried on the shoulders of the men, he shook his neck and let fall two drops of blood beside the two doorposts of his majesty, one on the one side of the great portal of Pharaoh, and the other on the other side. They grew into two big Persea trees, each of them outstanding. Then one went to tell his majesty: " Two big Persea trees have grown this night - a great marvel for his majesty- beside the great portal of his majesty." There was jubilation over them in the whole land, and the king made an offering to them.
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