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The Babylonian Legends of the Creation

EPILOGUE.

Project Gutenberg EPUB edition Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir
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125. Let the first comer take them and repeat them;
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126. Let the wise man and the learned man meditate upon all of them;
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127. The father shall repeat them to his son that he may lay hold upon them.
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128. Let them (i.e., the names) open the ears of the shepherd and the herdsman.53
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129. Let [man] rejoice in Marduk, the Lord of the Gods,
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130. That his land may be fertile and he himself abide in security.
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131. His word is true, his command altereth not.
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132. No god hath ever brought to the ground that which issueth from his mouth.
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133. They (i.e., the gods) treated him with contempt, he turned not his back [in flight],
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134. No god could resist his wrath at its height.
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135. His heart is large, his bowels of mercy are great.
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136. Of sin and wickedness before him ...
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137. The first comer utters his complaint of humiliation before him.
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[Lines 138-142 are too fragmentary to translate.]

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The Babylonian Legends of the Creation, Project Gutenberg eBook #9914

SEVENTH TABLET. Notes.