The 42 Laws of Ma'at

  • I have not committed sin.
  • I have not committed robbery with violence.
  • I have not stolen.
  • I have not slain men and women.
  • I have not stolen grain.
  • I have not purloined offerings.
  • I have not stolen the property of the gods.
  • I have not uttered lies.
  • I have not carried away food.
  • I have not uttered curses.
  • I have not committed adultery.
  • I have made none to weep.
  • I have not eaten the heart.
  • I have not attacked any man.
  • I am not a man of deceit.
  • I have not stolen cultivated land.
  • I have not been an eavesdropper.
  • I have not slandered.
  • I have not been angry without just cause.
  • I have not debauched the wife of any man.
  • I have not polluted myself.
  • I have terrorized none.
  • I have not transgressed.
  • I have not been wroth.
  • I have not shut my ears to the words of truth.
  • I have not blasphemed.
  • I am not a man of violence.
  • I have not been a stirrer up of strife.
  • I have not acted with undue haste.
  • I have not pried into matters.
  • I have not multiplied my words in speaking.
  • I have wronged none, I have done no evil.
  • I have not worked witchcraft against the King.
  • I have never stopped the flow of water.
  • I have never raised my voice.
  • I have not cursed God.
  • I have not acted with arrogance.
  • I have not stolen the bread of the gods.
  • I have not carried away the khenfu cakes from the spirits of the dead.
  • I have not snatched away the bread of a child, nor treated with contempt the god of my city.
  • I have not slain the cattle belonging to the god.

 

 

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