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I have not committed fraud. 



I have not injured the images of the gods. 



I have not taken scraps of the bandages of the dead. 



I have not committed adultery. 



I have not cheated by false weights. 



I have not kept milk from sucklings. 



I have not caught the sacred birds." 



And then addressing each god by name, the soul is 

 made to further declare: 



"I have not been idle. 



I have not boasted. 



I have not stolen. 



I have not counterfeited, nor killed sacred beasts, 

 nor blasphemed, nor refused to hear the truth, nor 

 despised God in my heart." 



According to some texts, he is made to still further 

 declare : 



"I have loved God. 



I have given bread to the hungry, water to the thirsty, 

 garments to the naked, an asylum to the abandoned." 



Inscriptions 



Or, consider the inscriptions on their tombs, no mean 

 source of interpreting a long-forgotten people's reli- 

 gion: 1 



"He loved his father, he honored his mother, he 

 loved his brethren, and never went from his house in 

 bad temper. He never preferred the great man to 

 the low one." 



1 Clarke's Ten Great Religions, p. 221. 



