29قالَ لَئِنِ اتَّخَذتَ إِلٰهًا غَيري لَأَجعَلَنَّكَ مِنَ المَسجونينَMuhammad AsadSaid [Pharaoh]: "Indeed, if thou choose to worship any deity other than me, I shall most certainly throw thee into prison!1In the religion of ancient Egypt, the king (or "Pharaoh", as each of the rulers was styled) represented an incarnation of the divine principle, and was considered to be a god in his own right. Hence, a challenge to his divinity implied a challenge to the prevalent religious system as a whole.