A Fourth Voice

[Interrupting] Let them say, the faint-hearts. Who cares what they say?

Third Voice

They say that his warriors are like a swarm of locusts.

Another Voice

Warriors! His men are no warriors! Small in stature are they like boys, and unhandy with their swords. My sister’s husband has seen many of them. Among the women they are men, but they are not men in battle. [Laughter]

Voices

Pharaoh will destroy them.—He will sweep them like chaff from the threshing-floor.—Long live Pharaoh!

Others

[Hearing the shouts and coming to join the group] What is he saying about Pharaoh?