The Testaments of the XII Patriarchs · Restored Names Edition · first paragraph
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 judgment 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.
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