In the time of King Suleiman the vizier threatened his wife if, after bearing nine daughters, the tenth child would also be a girl. When the child was born it was a daughter. She told it to the midwife who, however, substituted a male child of a washerwoman born on the same
day. The latter, however, brought the case before the sultan but the sultan and his councillors could not decide. They called the Jewish Rabbi, who caused the two mothers to fill two vessels of equal weight with their milk; that which contained the washerwoman's milk was the heavier and he decided that she was the mother of the boy, the milk for a male child being heavier than that for a female. He also appeased the wrath of the vizier.