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Bata is reborn, now as her son, and becomes king of Egypt. A splinter from the tree flies into her mouth, 'she swallowed it and in a moment she became pregnant'.

Bata's wife orders the tree to be cut down. To regain her, Bata assumes a sequence of different forms, the last being a persea tree. Unfortunately, she rejects him in favour of the king. Meanwhile, the gods have fashioned a wife for Bata. Anubis later discovers his wife's disloyalty and kills her. Believing his wife, Anubis initially turns against his brother and forces him to leave the family. Their pleasant lifestyle is disrupted when the wife of Anubis tries unsuccessfully to seduce her brother-in-law. The story begins by presenting an idyllic household, consisting of Anubis, his wife, and his brother, Bata. The only known copy of the 'Tale' is this manuscript of nineteen columns, which was probably roughly contemporaneous with its composition.

It is a highly entertaining but also sophisticated tale written in literary New Egyptian, telling of two semi-divine protagonists and their adventures, from which it derives its modern title 'The Tale of the Two Brothers'. The D'Orbiney Papyrus presents one of the more famous of Egyptian literary compositions, variously interpreted in modern times as a fairy tale, a historical allegory and a political satire, among others. The ancient Egyptian “Tale of two brothers”: a mythological, religious, literary, and historico-political study. Die Erzählung von den beiden Brüdern: der Papyrus d'Orbiney und die Königsideologie der Ramessiden Hollis, 'The Ancient Egyptian 'Tale of the Two Brothers' : The Oldest Fairy Tale in the World' (Norman, OK, and London, 1990). Lichtheim, 'Ancient Egyptian Literature: A Book of Readings II: The New Kingdom' (Berkeley, 1974), 203–11. Gardiner, 'Late Egyptian Stories','Bibliotheca Aegyptiaca' 1 (Brussels, 1932) ix–x, 11–29 (this section: 28–9). Select Papyri in the Hieratic Character from the Collections of the British Museum Bd. Notice sur un manuscrit égyptien en écriture hiératique, écrit sous le règne de Merienphthah, fils du grand Ramsès, vers le XVe siècle avant l'ère chrétienne.