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ship, he bored a hole in it. 'What! Have you made a hole in it,' he asked, 'to
drown its passengers? You have done a dreadful thing!' 'Did I not I tell you that
you would not bear patiently with me?‟ he replied. Moses said, 'Do not blame me
for what I forgot, nor press me to do something which is too difficult,' and so they
moved on.

Thereafter they met a boy and he killed him. He (Moses) exclaimed, 'What! Have
you killed a pure soul and it was not done (in retaliation) for a soul? You have
done a terrible thing!'

'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.'