Instruction of Amenemope

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178 THE TEACHING OF AMEN-EM-APT 531. Grasp it with both thy hands, take it [and use it], 532. There is nothing which is an abomination in the hand [to] the God. 533 - (Col. XXVII), Is not happy (or, content) the toiler ? CXIV. 534. Set not to ply a ferry-boat on the river 535. If thou art strenuous in thy quest of the fares of those who cross the river on it. 536. Let the fares drop into the hand of the master of the craft (?) 537. Thou being happy (or, content) with no part of them. 538. Thirtieth Chapter. 539. Behold the Thirty Chapters ! 540. They will give [thee] pleasure, they will teach [thee], 541. They will [serve as] a leader (or, guide) to every book.^ 542. They will give knowledge to {i.e., make to be wise) the ignorant man. 543. If they be read out in the presence of an ignorzint man 544. Assuredly he will steer his course [through life] according to their mouth {i.e., direc- tion). 545. Fill thyself full (or, steep thyself) in [the coimsel of] what is in them, set them, I beseech thee, in thy heart ; 546. Make thyself to be the man who has un- ravelled their contents, ^ Or, perhaps, "They are the first (or, principal things) of every book” — in fact, the cream of every work of this kind.