When the Egyptians had come between the two walls of water, by God's command Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, "and the sea returned to his strength," and the "waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, and all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them." 1 But the command of the waters of the sea or river was claimed by the Egyptian magician long before the time of Moses, as we may see from an interesting story preserved in the Westcar Papyrus.
Ва Ўнівэрсале караля Аўгуста ІІ аб спагнаньні падводнай павіннасці з гарадоў і мястэчак Вялікага княства Літоўскага (1699) запісана: «з Мядзёла злотых сорак».