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240 BC

THE PAPYRUS OF ANI

THE EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD

Translated by E.A. Wallis Budge

 

Part 66

  THE NEGATIVE CONFESSION

  Hail, Usekh-nemmt, who comest forth from Anu, I have not committed

sin.

  Hail, Hept-khet, who comest forth from Kher-aha, I have not

committed robbery with violence.

  Hail, Fenti, who comest forth from Khemenu, I have not stolen.

  Hail, Am-khaibit, who comest forth from Qernet, I have not slain men

and women.

  Hail, Neha-her, who comest forth from Rasta, I have not stolen

grain.

  Hail, Ruruti, who comest forth from heaven, I have not purloined

offerings.

  Hail, Arfi-em-khet, who comest forth from Suat, I have not stolen

the property of God.

  Hail, Neba, who comest and goest, I have not uttered lies.

  Hail, Set-qesu, who comest forth from Hensu, I have not carried away

food.

  Hail, Utu-nesert, who comest forth from Het-ka-Ptah, I have not

uttered curses.

  Hail, Qerrti, who comest forth from Amentet, I have not committed

adultery, I have not lain with men.

  Hail, Her-f-ha-f, who comest forth from thy cavern, I have made none

to weep.

  Hail, Basti, who comest forth from Bast, I have not eaten the heart.

  Hail, Ta-retiu, who comest forth from the night, I have not attacked

any man.

  Hail, Unem-snef, who comest forth from the execution chamber, I am

not a man of deceit.

  Hail, Unem-besek, who comest forth from Mabit, I have not stolen

cultivated land.

  Hail, Neb-Maat, who comest forth from Maati, I have not been an

eavesdropper.

  Hail, Tenemiu, who comest forth from Bast, I have not slandered

[no man].

  Hail, Sertiu, who comest forth from Anu, I have not been angry

without just cause.

  Hail, Tutu, who comest forth from Ati (the Busirite Nome), I have

not debauched the wife of any man.

  Hail, Uamenti, who comest forth from the Khebt chamber, I have not

debauched the wife of [any] man.

  Hail, Maa-antuf, who comest forth from Per-Menu, I have not polluted

myself.

  Hail, Her-uru, who comest forth from Nehatu, I have terrorized none.

  Hail, Khemiu, who comest forth from Kaui, I have not transgressed

[the law].

  Hail, Shet-kheru, who comest forth from Urit, I have not been wroth.

  Hail, Nekhenu, who comest forth from Heqat, I have not shut my

ears to the words of truth.

  Hail, Kenemti, who comest forth from Kenmet, I have not blasphemed.

  Hail, An-hetep-f, who comest forth from Sau, I am not a man of

violence.

  Hail, Sera-kheru, who comest forth from Unaset, I have not been a

stirrer up of strife.

  Hail, Neb-heru, who comest forth from Netchfet, I have not acted

with undue haste.

  Hail, Sekhriu, who comest forth from Uten, I have not pried into

matters.

  Hail, Neb-abui, who comest forth from Sauti, I have not multiplied

my words in speaking.

  Hail, Nefer-Tem, who comest forth from Het-ka-Ptah, I have wronged

none, I have done no evil.

  Hail, Tem-Sepu, who comest forth from Tetu, I have not worked

witchcraft against the king.

  Hail, Ari-em-ab-f, who comest forth from Tebu, I have never

stopped [the flow of] water.

  Hail, Ahi, who comest forth from Nu, I have never raised my voice.

  Hail, Uatch-rekhit, who comest forth from Sau, I have not cursed

God.

  Hail, Neheb-ka, who comest forth from thy cavern, I have not acted

with arrogance.

  Hail, Neheb-nefert, who comest forth from thy cavern, I have not

stolen the bread of the gods.

  Hail, Tcheser-tep, who comest forth from the shrine, I have not

carried away the khenfu cakes from the Spirits of the dead.

  Hail, An-af, who comest forth from Maati, I have not snatched away

the bread of the child, nor treated with contempt the god of my city.

  Hail, Hetch-abhu, who comest forth from Ta-she (the Fayyum), I

have not slain the cattle belonging to the god.