Book of the Dead, Spell 125A
Mouseia’s complete machine-assisted Musean translation, made directly from all 44 lines of the complete extant Papyrus Nu witness for fidelity, clarity, structure, imagery, and cadence. Egyptian source edition on ucl.ac.uk
Egyptian
### Spell 125A
001 Ddt xft sprt r wsxt nt mAaty
002 pxA N m xw nb ir.n.f mAA Hrw nTrw
003 Dd-mdw in N
004 i.nD Hr.k nTr aA nb mAaty
005 ii.n.i xr.k nb.i int.k wi mAn.i nfrw.k
006 iw.i rx.kwi Tw rx.kwi rn.k
007 rx.kwi rn n pA nTr Hm-sn wnnyw Hna.k m wsxt tn nt mAaty
008 anxyw m sAwt Dwt samyw m snf.sn
009 hrw pwy n Hsb qdw m-bAH wnn-nfr
010 mk sAty mrty nb mAaty rn.k
011 mk wi ii.kwi xr.k in.n.i n.k mAat dr.n.i n.k isft rmT
012 n smAir.i wnDwt n ir.i iwyt m st mAat
013 n rx.i iwtt n ir.i bw Dw
014 n ir.i tp ra nb bAkw m Hrw irt.n.i
015 n spr rn.i r iAt nt xrp Hmw
016 n nmH.i nmH m xt.f
017 n ir.i bwt nTrw
018 n sDw.i Hm n Hry-tp.f
019 n smr.i n sHqr.i n srm.i n smA.i
020 n HD.i smAw n ir.i mnt Hr nb
021 n xb.i Sbw m rw-prw
022 n HD.i pAwt nTrw
023 n nHm.i fnxw Axw
024 n nk.i nkk nkk n dAdA.i
025 n xb.i dbH n xb.i sTAt
026 n siAt.i AHt n wAH.i Hr mwt nt iwsw
027 n nmH.i m tx n mxAt
028 n nHm.i irt m r n nxnw
029 n kfA.i awt Hr smw.sn
030 n sxt.i Apdw m qsw nTrw
031 n HAm.i rmw n XAwt.sn
032 n xsf.i mw m tri.f
033 n dni.i dnit Hr mw Asw
034 n axm.i xt m At.s
035 n th.i ssw Hr stpw
036 n Sna.i mnmnt Hr xt nTr
037 n xsf.i nTr m prw.f
038 iw.i wab.kwi sp fd
039 abw.i abw bnw pwy aA nty m Hnn-nswt
040 Hr-ntt ink is fnd pwy n nb TAw
041 sanx rxyt nbt hrw pwy n mH wDAt m iwnw m Abd 2 prt sw arqy
042 ink mAA mH wDAt m iwnw
043 nn xpr bw Dw r.i m tA pn m wsxt tn nt mAaty
044 Hr-ntt wi rx.kwi rn n nTrw wnnyw im.s
English · Musean translation · Mouseia
### Spell 125A
001 What is said upon arriving at the Hall of the Two Truths
002 Clearing N of every evil he has done, and beholding the faces of the gods
003 Words spoken by N:
004 Hail to you, great god, Lord of the Two Truths.
005 I have come to you, my lord; bring me, that I may behold your beauty.
006 I know you; I know your name.
007 I know the names of the forty-two gods who are with you in this Hall of the Two Truths,
008 who live on the slaughter of the wicked, who swallow their blood
009 on that day of reckoning conduct before Wennefer.
010 Behold, He of the Two Daughters, He of the Two Eyes—Lord of the Two Truths is your name.
011 Behold, I have come to you. I have brought you truth; I have driven wrongdoing away from you.
012 I have not oppressed people. I have not done wrong in the place of truth.
013 I have not known what should not be known. I have done no evil.
014 I have not set, at the beginning of each day, tasks beyond what I had done.
015 My name has not reached the office of the overseer of servants.
016 I have not deprived an orphan of his property.
017 I have not done what the gods abhor.
018 I have not slandered a servant to his superior.
019 I have not caused pain. I have not caused hunger. I have not caused weeping. I have not killed.
020 I have not diminished provisions. I have not caused suffering to anyone.
021 I have not disturbed offerings in the temples.
022 I have not diminished the gods’ loaves.
023 I have not taken provisions from the transfigured spirits.
024 I have not fornicated. I have not masturbated.
025 I have not tampered with the grain measure. I have not tampered with the land measure.
026 I have not encroached upon fields. I have not added to the weight of the scales.
027 I have not lightened the plummet of the balance.
028 I have not taken milk from the mouths of children.
029 I have not deprived cattle of their pasture.
030 I have not trapped birds in the gods’ reed thickets.
031 I have not caught fish in their pools.
032 I have not held back water in its season.
033 I have not built a dam against flowing water.
034 I have not extinguished fire in its proper moment.
035 I have not neglected the days of choice offerings.
036 I have not driven herds from the god’s property.
037 I have not barred a god in his processions.
038 I am pure four times.
039 My purity is the purity of that great phoenix in Heracleopolis,
040 for I am indeed that nose of the Lord of Air,
041 which gives life to all the people on that day when the Eye is made whole in Heliopolis, in the second month of the Growing Season, on its final day.
042 I am one who beholds the Eye made whole in Heliopolis.
043 No evil shall happen to me in this land, in this Hall of the Two Truths,
044 for I know the names of the gods who are in it.