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How the Queen came to Solomon the King hearing concerning him and without seeing him, and the whole story of him that hath been told me is to me as the desire of my heart, and like water to the thirsty man." And her nobles, and her slaves, and her handmaidens, and her counsellors answered and said unto her, " O our Lady, as for wisdom, it is not lacking in thee, and it is because of thy wisdom that thou lovest wisdom. And as for us, if thou goest we will go with thee, and if thou sittest down we will sit down with thee our death shall be with thy death, and our life with thy life." Then the Queen made ready to set out on her journey with great pomp and majesty, and with great equipment and ; For, by the Will of God, her heart desired to go to Jerusalem so that she might hear the many preparations. wisdom of Solomon for she had hearkened eagerly. So ; she made ready to set out. And seven hundred and ninety-seven camels were loaded, and mules and asses innumerable were loaded, and she set out on her journey and followed her road without pause, and her heart had confidence in God. 25. How THE QUEEN CAME TO SOLOMON THE KING And she arrived in Jerusalem, and brought to the King very many precious gifts which he desired to possess And he paid her great honour and rejoiced, greatly. and he gave her a habitation in the royal palace near And he sent her food both for the morning and him. evening meal, each time fifteen measures by the kbr i of finely ground white meal, cooked with oil and gravy and sauce in abundance, and thirty measures of by the crushed white meal wherefrom bread for three hundred and fifty people was made, with the necessary platters and trays, and ten stalled oxen, and five bulls, and fifty sheep, without (counting) the kids, and deer, and km gazelles and fatted fowls, and a vessel of wine containing sixty gerrdt measures, and thirty measures of old wine, and twenty-five singing men and twenty-five singing 23