THE 42 STATEMENTS OF THE LAST JUDGMENT
1. I have not committed murder, neither have I bid any one to slay (kill) on my behalf;
2. I have not committed rape (take anything by force), neither have I forced any one to commit fornication
3. I have not avenged (get revenge for) myself, nor have I burned with rage (anger);
4. I have not caused terror, nor have I worked affliction (pain);
5. I have caused none to feel pain, nor have I worked grief;
6. I have done neither harm nor ill, nor have I caused misery;
7. I have done no hurt to man, nor have I wrought (shaped) harm to beasts;
8. I have made none to weep;
9. I have had no knowledge of evil, neither have I acted wickedly, nor have I wronged the people;
10. I have not stolen, have taken that which does not belong to me, or that which belongs to another, or have
I taken from the orchards (garden), nor snatched (grip quickly, kidnap) the milk from the mouth of the baby;
11. I have not defrauded (cheated), neither have I added to the weight of the balance, nor have I made light
The weight in the scales;
12. I have not laid waste the plowed land, nor trampled (stepped heavily or nosily) down the fields;
13. I have not driven the cattle from their pastures (feeding on grass in open meadow), nor have I deprived
(Lacking certain necessities) any of that which was rightfully theirs
14. I have accused no man falsely, nor have I supported any false accusation;
15. I have spoken no lies, neither have I spoken falsely to the hurt of another;
16. I have never uttered fiery (hot tempered) words, nor have I stirred (affect the emotion) up strife (fight);
17. I have not acted guilefully (dishonestly), neither have I dealt deceitfully (dishonestly), nor spoken to
deceive to the hurt another;
18. I have not spoken scornfully (tease), nor have I set my lips in motion against any man;
19. I have not been an eavesdropper (one who listens in another person's private conversation)
20. I have not stopped my ears against the words of Right and Truth;
21. I have not judged hastily (quickly), nor have I judged harshly (cruelly);
22. I have committed no crime in the place of Right and Truth;
23. I have caused no wrong to be done to the servant by his master;
24. I have not been angry without cause;
25. I have not turned back water at its springtide, nor stemmed the flow of running water;
26. I have not broken the channel of running water;
27. I have never fouled (pollute) the water, nor have I polluted the land.
28. I have not cursed nor despised (hate) God, nor have I done that which God does abominate (hate);
29. I have not vexed (anger, irritate) or angered God;
30. I have not robbed God, nor have I filched that which has been offered in the temples;
31. I have not added unto nor have I diminished the offerings which are due;
32. I have not purloined (steal) the cakes of the gods;
33. I have not carried away the offerings made unto the blessed dead;
34. I have not disregarded the season for the offerings which are appointed;
35. I have not turned away the cattle set apart for sacrifice;
36. I have not thwarted (prevent) the processions of the god;
37. I have not slaughtered with evil intent the cattle of the god;
38. I have not acted guilefully (dishonestly) nor have I acted in insolence;
39. I have not been overly proud, nor have I behaved myself with arrogance (غطرسة)
40. I have never magnified my condition beyond what was fitting;
41. Each day have I labored more than was required of me?
42. My name has not come forth to the boat of the Prince
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