162 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and BabyloniaI have not committed murder.
I have not caused any man to be treacherously murdered.
I have not dealt treacherously with any one.
I have not diminished the offerings of bread in the temples.
I have not spoiled the shewbread of the gods.
I have not robbed the dead of their loaves and cerecloths.
[176] I have not been unchaste.
I have not defiled myself in the sanctuary of the god of my
city.
I have not stinted and been niggardly of offerings.
I have not defrauded in weighing the scales.
I have not given false weight.
I have not taken the milk from the mouth of the child.
I have not hunted the cattle in their meadows.
I have not netted the birds of the gods.
I have not fished in their preserves.
I have not kept the water (from my neighbour) in the time of
inundation.
I have not cut off a water channel.
I have not extinguished the flame at a wrong time.
I have not defrauded the Ennead of the gods of the choice
parts of the victims.
I have not driven away the oxen of the temple.
I have not driven back a god when he has left the temple.
I am pure! I am pure! I am pure!”^145
The negative confession ended, the dead man turned to the
forty-two assessors and pleaded that he was innocent of the
particular sin which they had been severally appointed to judge.
Then he once more addressed Osiris with a final plea for
justification: “Hail to you, ye gods who are in the great hall
of the Twofold Truth, who have no falsehood in your bosoms,
but who live on truth in On, and feed your hearts upon it before
(^145) Wiedemann,Die Religion der alten Aegypter, pp. 132, 133; and Maspero,
Dawn of Civilisation, pp. 188-190.