Instruction of Amenemope

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THE TEACHING OF AMEN-EM-APT 163 307. Fourteenth Chapter. LXIII. 308. Remember not [too exactly] the antecedents of a man 309. When thou art striving (?) to seek for his hand (help ?), 310. If he says to thee, “ Accept the things [which I have] brought.” 31 1. He is not one who has no 312. Cast not malign looks at him whilst bending down thy face, 313. Whilst turning away thy glance elsewhere. 314. Greet him with kind words in thy mouth, speak and salute (?) him cordially. 315. (Col. XVII). [If] he approaches thee (?) thy end comes. 316. Make him not to go down to his former [state], 317. On another occasion he can be brought (?). 318. Fifteenth Chapter. LXIV. 319. Do the thing that is right [and] thou wilt attain to a [true] state of being. LXV. 320. Make no erasure (?) in the registers on behalf of an encroacher. LXVI. 321. Since the beak of the Ibis-god {i.e., Thoth) is the finger of the scribe, 322. Take good heed not to thrust it aside. 323. The Ape [of Thoth] .sits directing Per- Khemenu (Hermopolis), L 3