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Hatred— Children and grandchildren, do not hate each other, do 



not give way to hatred. 



Exacting Fines.-ChMren and grandchildren, do not require fines 

 for trespass, for breaking your arbitrary rules or regulations. Though 

 others make you pay fines for trespass, do not you make them pay 

 you for trespasses in return. 



Falsehood-Children and grandchildren, do not testify to words 

 which are false. In buying and selling do not use deception. Do 

 not defraud, do not be dishonest in your transactions. 



Quarrelling.— Childrea and grandchildren, do not do evil to each 

 other, do not strike and beat each other, do not rage against each 

 other'. Do not extort from each other. Do not push each other 

 down. Be careful. Do not pull each other's hair, do not slap each 

 other's cheeks. These things are wrong in the sight _ of the God of 

 heaven and earth. Cultivate adjoining fields, build neighbouring 

 houses. When you eat rice together, do not boast against each 

 other ; when you drink whisky together, do not strike each other. 

 The former elders said, "Sleeping together ^ is warmth, eating 

 together is sweet, travelling together is pleasant." 



O^reWon.-Children and grandchildren, why is it that one and 

 another suffer so exceedingly as they do ? It is because he exalted 

 himself at first, and said : "lama man, and my hands are strong/ 

 And he sold into slavery the widow and the orphan, and regarded his 

 relation as nobody. And he extorted money from others, and treated 

 others outrageously ; so when he became old, and his strength failed 

 him, his enemies rose up that he had wronged, and retorted on him, 

 and' he suffers for his sins. He did evil, and his evil returns upon 

 him ; and he grieves, and weeps, and suffers anguish ; and when he 

 dies he has no one to bury him, and his body remains in the field, 

 and the birds devour it. 



Theft.— Children and grandchildren, do not steal. Those who 

 steal or destroy, defraud or act dishonestly, their deeds are by no 

 means secret. Though the doers say nothing, though their mouths 

 do not speak ; their deeds will become manifest in the ordeal by 

 water, and the ordeal of ascending trees. You will be beaten in 

 remaining under water, you will be beaten in ascending trees. You 



