"Pharaoh said to them: "O ye fools, did he not prophesy through the holy spirit and proclaim to the whole world, that there would come seven years of plenty to be followed by seven years of dearth? Why did you not save the yield of one or two years against the day of your need?" Weeping, they made reply: "The grain that we put aside during the good years hath rotted." Pharaoh: "Have ye nothing over of the flour of yesterday?" The Egyptians: "The very bread in the basket rotted!" Pharaoh: "Why?" The Egyptians: "Because Joseph willed thus!" Pharaoh: "O ye fools, if his word hath power over the grain, making it to rot when he desireth it to rot, then also must we die, if so be his wish concerning us. Go, therefore, unto him, and do as he bids you.""