Section 26
And the Queen Make da spoke to King Shəlomah, saying, Blessed are you, my Yahuah, in that such wisdom and understanding have been given to you. For myself I only wish that I could be as one of the least of your handmaidens, so that I could wash your feet, and hearken to your wisdom, and apprehend your understanding, and serve your majesty, and enjoy your wisdom. O how greatly have pleased me your answering, and the sweetness of your voice, and the beauty of your going, and the graciousness of your w r ords, and the readiness of it. The sweetness of your voice makes the heart to rejoice, and makes the bones fat, and gives courage to hearts, and goodwill and grace to the lips, and strength to the gait. I look upon you and I see that your wisdom is immeasureable and your understanding inexhaustible, and that it is like to a lamp in the darkness, and like to a pomegranate in the garden, and like to a pearl in the sea, and like to the Morning Star among the stars, and like to the light of the moon in the mist, and like to a glorious dawn and sunrise in the heavens. And I give thanks to Him that brought me here, and showed you to me, and made me to tread upon the threshold of your gate, and made me to hear your voice.” And King Shəlomah answered and said to her, Wisdom and understanding spring from you thyself. As for me, [I only possess them] in the measure in which the Elohim of Yisra'el has given [them] to me because I asked and entreated them from Him. And you, although you do not know the Elohim of Yisra'el, hast this wisdom which you hast made to grow in your heart, and [it has made you come] to see me, the vassal and slave of my Elohim, and the building of His sanctuary which I am establishing, and in which I serve and move round about my Lady, the Tabot of the Torah of the Elohim of Yisra'el, the qodesh and heavenly Tsiyon. Now, I am the slave of my Elohim, and I am not a free man; I do not serve according to my own will but according to His Will. And this speech of mine springeth not from myself, but I give utterance only to what He makes me to utter. whatever He commandeth me that I do; wheresoever He wisheth me to go there I go; whatever He teacheth me that I speak; that concerning which He gives me wisdom I understand. For from being only dust He has made me flesh, and from being only water He has made me a solid man, and from being only an ejected drop, which shot forth upon the ground would have dried up on the surface of the earth, He has fashioned me in His own likeness and has made me in His own image.”