Excerpt from the 125th Chapter of the Book of the Dead, Plate 31.
Address to the Gods
Homage to you, O gods these! I, even I know you. I know your names. Do not cast me down to your slaughtering knives, do not bring forward ye my wickedness before god this whom ye follow him, let not come my moment before you. Declare ye right and truth for me before the hand of Neb-er-tcher, because I have done right a truth in Tamera[ Egypt ]. Not have I cursed God, not hath come my moment. Homage to you, O gods who live in your hall of right and truth, without evil in their bodies, who live in right and truth in Annu, who consume their entrails in the presence of Horus in his disk, deliver ye me from Baabi, who liveth upon the intestines of the princes, on day that of the judgment great by you; I have come to you.
Negative Confession
Not have I committed faults, not have I sinned, not have I done evil, not have I born false witness, not let be done to me anything therefore.
Acts of the Deceased
I live in right and truth, I feed upon right and truth in my heart. I have done that which commanded men, are satisfied the gods thereat. I have appeased God by [doing] his will. I have given bread to the hungry, water to the thirsty, clothes to the naked, and a boat to the shipwrecked. I have made offerings to the gods, and sacrificial meals to the spirits. Deliver ye me then ye, protect me then ye, not make accusation ye against me before the god great. I am pure of mouth, pure of hands. Is said to him, Come, twice, by those who see him, because I have heard speech that spoken by the Donkey with the Cat in the house of Hept-re. I have born testimony before him, he hath given the decision. I have seen the division of the persea trees within Re-stau. I, I offer up prayers in the presence of the gods knowing what concerneth their persons. I have come advancing to make a declaration of right and truth, to place the balance upon its supports within the amaranthine bushes. Hail exalted upon his standard, lord of the atef crown, making his name as the lord of winds, deliver me from thy messengers who make to happen dire deeds, who make to arise calamities, without covering upon their faces, because I have done right and truth.
The Purification of the Deceased
O lord of right and truth, I am pure, my breast is washed, my hinder parts and cleansed, my interior [hath been] in the pool of right and truth, not [is] a member in me lacking. I have been purified in the pool southern, I have rested in Hemet, to the north of the field of the grasshoppers; bathe the divine sailors' in it at the season of night to gratify the heart of the gods after I have passed over it by night and by day.
The Mystic Name of the Deceased
They grant his coming, they say to me, "Who then art thou?" say they to me. "What then is thy name?" say they to me. I grow among the flowers dwelling in the olive tree is my name. "Pass on thou forthwith," say they unto me.
The Flint and the Crystal
I have passed by the town north of the bushes. "What then didst thou see there?" The leg and the thigh. "What then didst thou say to them?" I saw rejoicing in those lands of the Fenkhu. "What then did give they to thee?" A flame it was of fire, together with a tablet of crystal. "What then didst thou do therewith?" I buried them by the furrow of Maati with the things of the night. "What then didst thou find there by the furrow of Maati?" A sceptre of flint; maketh to prevail thee it. "What then is [the name of] the sceptre of flint?" Giver of winds is its name. "What then therefore didst thou do with the flame of fire and with the table of crystal after thou didst bury them?" I uttered words over it, I adjured it, and I extinguished the fire, I made use of the tablet in creating a pool of water. "Come then pass in over door this of Hall this of Maati, thou art knowing us."
The Door and its Posts
"Not will I let enter thee over me," saith the bolt of door this, "except thou sayest my name." Weight of the place of right and truth is thy name. "Not will let I enter thee by me," saith the post right of the door this, "except thou sayest my name. He weigheth the labours of right and truth is thy name. "Not will I let enter thee by me," saith the post left of the door this, "except thou sayest my name." Judge of wine is thy name. "Not will I let pass thee over me," saith the threshold of door this, "except thou sayest my name." Ox of Keb is thy name. "Not will I open to thee," saith the bolt-socket of door this, "except thou sayest my name." Flesh of his mother is thy name. "Not will I open to thee," saith the lock of the door this, "except thou sayest my name." Liveth the utchat of Sebek, the lord of Bakhau, is thy name. "Not will I open to thee, not will I let pass thee over me," saith the dweller at the door this, "except thou tellest my name." Arm of Shu that placeth itself for the protection of Osiris is thy name. "Not will we allow to pass thee by us," say the posts of the door this, "except thou sayest our names." Serpent children of Rennut are your names. "Thou knowest us, pass then by us." "Not shalt thread thou upon me," saith the floor of hall this, "except thou sayest my name." .......... I am silent, "I am pure, because not do we know thy two legs thou treadest upon us with them; tell then to me them." Traveler before Amsu is the name of my leg right. Grief of Nephthys is the name of my leg left. "Tread then upon us, thou knowest us." "Not will I question thee," saith the guardian of the door of the hall this, "except thou sayest my name." Discerner of hearts, searcher of reins, is thy name. "I will question thee then. Who is the god dwelling in this hour? Speak thou it." The recorder of the two lands. "Who then is he the recorder of the two lands?" Thoth is it. "Come," saith Thoth, "come thou hither."
The Weighing of the Heart
I come advancing to the examination. "What then is thy condition?" I, I am pure from evil all. I am protected from the baleful acts of those who live in their days, not am I among them. "I have examined then thee. Who goeth down into the flame, its walls are [surmounted] with uraei, being his paths in that same lake?" The traverser Osiris is. "Come forward then, verily thou hast been examined; is thy bread from the utchat, and [thy] beer from the utchat," are brought out to thee sepulchral offerings upon earth from the utchat. Hath decreed it he for me.
