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18:74 and so they departed. 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.'

18:75 'Did I not tell you,' he replied, 'that you would not be able to bear patiently with me?'
18:76 He (Moses) said, 'If I question you again do not let me be your companion; you
already have enough excuse.'

18:77 So they departed and thereafter they 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.'

18:78 He said, 'This is the parting between me and you. But now I will tell you the
interpretation of that which you could not patiently bear.

18:79 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.