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Plate XXXII.
bodies, who feed on your own substance in (8) the presence of Horus who liveth in his disk, deliver ye
me from Baabi, who feedeth on the inwards of the mighty ones on the day of the great judgment which
shall be holden by you. (9) I have come unto you; I have committed no faults; I have not sinned; I have
done no evil; I have accused no man falsely; therefore let nothing be done against me. I live in right and
truth, (10) and I feed my heart upon right and truth. That which men have bidden I have done, and the
gods are satisfied thereat. I have pacified the god, for I have done his (11) will. I have given bread unto
the hungry and water unto those who thirst, clothing unto the naked, and a boat unto the shipwrecked
mariner. (12) I have made holy offerings unto the gods; and I have given meals of the tomb to the sainted
dead. O, then, deliver ye me, and protect me; accuse me not before the great god. (13) I am pure of
mouth, and I am pure of hands. May those who see me say, 'Come in peace, come in peace.' For I have
heard the speech which the Ass held with the Cat in the House of Hept-re. (14) 1 have borne witness
before him [the god] and he hath given judgment. I have beheld the dividing of the persea trees (15)
within Re-stau. I offer up prayers in the presence of the gods, knowing that which concerneth them. I
have come forward to make a declaration of right and truth, and to place (16) the balance upon its
supports within the groves of amaranth. Hail, thou who art exalted upon thy resting place, thou lord of
the atef crown, who declarest thy name as the lord of the (17) winds, deliver thou me from thine angels
of destruction, who make dire deeds to happen and calamities to arise, and (18) who have no covering
upon their faces, because I have done right and truth, O thou Lord of right and truth. I am pure, in my
fore-parts have I been made clean, and in my hinder parts have I (19) been purified; my reins have been
bathed in the Pool of right and
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truth, and no member of my body was wanting. I have been purified in the pool of the south. I have
rested in Hemet, on the north of the (20) field of the grasshoppers, wherein the holy mariners do purify
themselves in the night season, that they may pacify (?) the heart of the gods after I have passed over it
(21) by night and by day. May the gods say unto me, 'We let him come,' and they say unto me, 'Who art
thou, and what is thy name?' My name is 'I grew among (22) the flowers, dwelling in the olive tree.' Then
shall they say unto me, 'Pass on straightway.' I have passed by the city on the north of the groves, and the
gods say, 'What didst thou see there?' [I saw] the Leg and the Thigh. (23) 'What hadst thou to do with
them?' I saw rejoicings in the lands of the Fenkhu. 'What did they give thee?' They gave me a (24) flame
of fire together with a crystal tablet. 'What didst thou therewith?' I burned it at the place of Maati together
with the things of the night. 'What didst thou (25) find there at the place of Maati?' A sceptre of flint
which maketh a man to prevail. 'What then is [the name] of this sceptre of flint?' 'Giver of winds' is its
name. 'What then didst thou unto the flame of fire with the tablet of (26) crystal after thou didst bury it?' I
uttered words over it, I made (27) adjuration thereby, I quenched the fire, and I used the tablet to create
(28) a pool of water. 'Come, then, pass through the door of this Hall of two-fold Maati, for thou (29)
knowest us.' 'I will not let thee enter in over me,' saith the bolt of the door, (30) 'unless thou tell my
name.' 'Weight of the place of right and truth' is thy name. I will not let thee (31) pass in by me,' saith the
right post of the door, 'unless thou tell my name.' (32) 'Weigher of the labours of right and truth' is thy
name. 'I will not let thee enter in by me,' saith the left Post (33) of the door, 'unless thou tell my name.'
'judge of (34) wine' (?) is thy name. 'I will not let thee pass,' saith the threshold of the door, (35) unless
thou tell my name.' 'Ox of Seb' is thy name. 'I will not open unto thee,' (36) saith the bolt-socket of the
door, 'unless thou tell my name.' 'Flesh of his (37) mother' is thy name. I will not open unto thee,' saith
the lock of the door, 'unless thou tell my name.' The utchat of Sebek, the Lord of Bakhan, liveth' is thy
name. (38) 'I will not open unto thee, and I will not let thee pass over me,' saith the dweller at the door,
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