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you are here: > The (Lost) Commandments of Akhenaten
> Chapter 06
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Chapter 6 (steal no land and eat from your own field) | |
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Do not move the markers on the borders of fields. |
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Nor shift the position of the measuring-cord. |
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Do not be greedy for a cubit of land. |
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Nor encroach on the boundaries of a widow. |
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The trodden furrow worn down by time, |
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he who disguises it in the fields, |
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when he has snared it by false oaths, |
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he will be caught by the might of the Moon. |
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Recognize him who does this on earth ! |
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He is an oppressor of the weak, |
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a foe working to destroy your body. |
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The taking of life is in his eye, |
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his house is an enemy to the town, |
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his barns will be destroyed, |
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his wealth wiIl be seized from his children's hands, and |
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his possessions will be given to another. |
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Beware of destroying the borders of fields, |
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lest a terror carry You away. |
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One pleases god with the might of the Lord,30 |
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when one discerns the borders of fields. |
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Desire your being to be sound. |
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Beware of the Lord of ALL ! |
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Do not erase another's furrow, |
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it profits You to keep it sound. |
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Plow your fields and You will find what You need, |
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You will receive bread from your own threshing-floor. |
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Better is a bushel given You by the god, |
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than five thousand through wrongdoing. |
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They stay not a day in bin and barn, |
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they make no food for the beer jar. |
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A moment is their stay in the granary, |
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comes morning, and they have vanished. |
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Better is poverty in the hand of the god, |
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than wealth in the storehouse. |
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Better is bread with a happy heart, |
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than wealth with vexation. | |
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