FIRST CONFESSION

I have not done injury to men.

I have not oppressed those beneath me.[239]

I have not acted perversely [prevaricated?], instead of

straightforwardly.

I have not known vanity.[240]

I have not been a doer of mischief.

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I have not done what the gods abominate.

I have not turned the servant against his master.

I have not caused hunger.

I have not caused weeping.

I have not murdered.

I have not commanded murder.

I have not caused suffering to men.

I have not cut short the rations of the temples.

I have not diminished the offerings of the gods.

I have not taken the provisions of the blessed dead.

I have not committed fornication nor impurity in what was sacred to

the god of my city.

I have not added to nor diminished the measures of grain.

I have not diminished the palm measure.

I have not falsified the cubit of land.

I have not added to the weights of the balance.

I have not nullified the plummet of the scales.

I have not taken milk from the mouth of babes.

I have not driven cattle from their herbage.[241]

I have not trapped birds, the bones of the gods.

I have not caught fish in their pools.[?]

I have not stopped water in its season.

I have not dammed running water.

I have not quenched fire when burning.[242]

I have not disturbed the cycle of gods when at their choice meats.

I have not driven off the cattle of the sacred estate.

I have not stopped a god in his comings forth.

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