Where were the gods? Hapi had not protected the Nile, Heket had not controlled the frogs, Geb had not staunched the flow of lice, Kehpri did nothing to keep the flies from the land, Ptah and Hathor ignored the pleas to protect our livestock, sacrifices to Isis seemed to only aggravate the boils, and Set seemed to have no control over the angry storms and failed to protect our crops. We would starve—all the gold in the land could not prevent widespread death from the famine and disease that would now ensue. Had the gods fled Egypt with the birds, or was this Hebrew god, this Yahweh, more
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