²⁵ Wenn dein Bruder verarmet und verkauft dir seine Habe, und sein nächster Freund kommt zu ihm, daß er's löse, so soll er's lösen, was sein Bruder verkauft hat.

¹ Ah, the land of the rustling of wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia;

² that sends ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus on the waters, saying, "Go, you swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people awesome from their beginning onward, a nation that measures out and treads down, whose land the rivers divide!"