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| 146. | it did eat, it swam, and wandered away, and did not return.
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| 147. | I sent the animals forth to the four winds I poured out a libation
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| 148. | I built an altar on the peak of the mountain,
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| 149. | by sevens herbs I cut,
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| 150. | at the bottom of them, I placed reeds, pines, and simgar.
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| 151. | The gods collected at its burning, the gods collected at its good burning.
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| 152. | the gods like flies over the sacrifice gathered,
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| 153. | From of old also, the great God in his course,
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| 154. | the great brightness of Arm had created; when the glory
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| 155. | of these gods, as of Ukni stone, on my countenance I could not endure;
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| 156. | in those days I prayed that for ever I might not endure.
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| 157. | May the gods come to my altar;
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| 158. | may Bel not come to my altar
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| 159. | for he did not consider and had made a tempest
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| 160. | and my people he had consigned to the deep
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| 161. | from of old, also Bel in his course
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| 162. | saw the ship, and went Bel with anger filled to the gods and spirits;
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| 163. | let not any one come out alive, let not a man be saved from the deep.
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| 164. | Ninip his mouth opened and spake, and said to the warrior Bel,
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| 165. | 'who then will be saved,' Hea the words understood,
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| 166. | and Hea knew all things,
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| 167. | Hea his mouth opened and spake, and said to the warrior Bel,
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| 168. | 'Thou prince of the gods, warrior,
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| 169. | when thou art angry a tempest thou makest,
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| 170. | the doer of sin did his sin, the doer of evil did his evil,
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| 171. | may the exalted not be broken, may the captive not be delivered;
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| 172. | instead of thee making a tempest, may lions increase and men be reduced;
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| 173. | instead of thee making a tempest, may leopards increase, and men be reduced;
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