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Chapter 125, the last section of the Book of the Dead, is a recitation of all the evil deeds the deceased did not commit during life It forms an excellent collection of Egyptian beliefs about right and wrong behavior
To be said on reaching the Hall of the Two Truths so as to purge N [name of the deceased] of any sins committed and to see the face of every god
Hail to you, great God, Lord of the Two Truths
I have come to you, my Lord,
I was brought to see your beauty
I know you, I know the names of the forty two gods
Who are with you in the Hall of the Two truths,
Who live by warding off evildoers,
Who drink of their blood,
On that day of judging characters before Wennofer
Lo, your name is 'He of-Two-Daughters,
And He...
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