Letter: DK 323

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Informal note in Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning 'the arrival of the pieces (? qiṭaʿ).' The writer takes a snippy tone: "Please have the good grace to send them quickly, because when I must maintain (? aḥfaẓ) something urgently, I am not a person who wants to wait a long time for it to be maintained (? yanḥafiẓ) by our sins or worse." There are some cryptic headers. One of them is Exodus 1:17 about the midwives fearing God. Perhaps this is meant to allude to Exodus 1:21 about God making the midwives houses, and the desired 'pieces' are intended for a house?