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JOSEPH AND HIS BRETHREN

Simeon. Issachar! Issachar! How much more of this insolence shall I suffer!

[Enter Levi]

Levi. These youths wax turbulent. Our father Jacob shall have a word for them!

Gad [With a mock bow] The solemn Levi! Brothers!

[Enter Zebulun]
[The sons of Leah: Simeon, Levi and Judah are together on one side of the stage with their retinues, the other brothers face them]

Zebulun. Why have our elders such frowning faces?

Gad. Hush, Zebulun! Oh, hush! Levi is about to speak!

Levi. And a blow shall follow the word!

[An angry roar was being heard from both sides. The Attendants on either side make ready their weapons; spears, slings and stones, bows and arrows]
[Asher comes hurriedly down the center]

Asher. Brothers! Great news!

[The quarrel is arrested]

Levi. What news, son of Zilpah?

Gad. Whence runnest thou, Asher?

Asher. I come from the fringe of the desert. Thither came a swarthy runner, seeking a well. For far in his wake, he said, followed a mighty train——

Simeon [Anxiously] Thou showd'st him no well!

Asher. Ay, but I did——

[All give a cry of anger]

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