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'Did I not tell you,' he replied, 'that you would not be able to bear patiently with
me?' He (Moses) said, 'If I question you again do not let me be your companion;
you already have enough of an excuse.'

So they moved on and thereafter came to the inhabitants of a village. They asked
its inhabitants for some food, but they declined to host them. There, they found a
wall about to fall down whereupon his companion restored it.

He (Moses) said, 'Had you wished, you could have taken payment for that.'
He said, 'This is the parting between me and you. Now I will tell you the
interpretation of that which you could not patiently bear. „As for the ship, it
belonged to poor people working on the sea. I rendered it imperfect because
behind them there was a king who was taking every ship by brutal force.

„As for the boy, his parents are believers, and we were afraid lest he should
impose on them with his insolence and disbelief. It was our wish that their Lord
should grant them another in exchange, better in purity and tenderness.

„As for the wall, it belonged to two orphan boys in the city. Beneath it was