Spell 125 — The Hall of the Two Truths and the Negative Confession
R.O. Faulkner / E.A. Wallis Budge (composite, abridged) · Public domain / scholarly composite. Reproduced for educational and religious commentary.
1What is to be said when entering the Hall of the Two Truths, when N parts himself from all the evil that he has done, and looks upon the faces of the gods.
2Hail to you, great god, lord of the Two Truths. I have come to you, my lord. I have been brought that I may see your beauty. I know you. I know your name. I know the names of the forty-two gods who are with you in this Hall of the Two Truths.
3I have done what is right and true. I have not committed evil against any man. I have not abused those who are in their dwellings. I have not lied. I have not been a man of anger.
4I have not stolen. I have not killed. I have not commanded killing. I have not caused suffering to any man. I have not stolen the offerings of the temples. I have not stolen the cakes of the spirits. I have not lain with another man's wife. I have not defiled myself.
5I have not increased nor diminished the measure. I have not falsified the cubit of land. I have not added to the weights of the scales. I have not nor lightened the standard weight. I have not taken milk from the mouths of children.
6I have not driven cattle from their pastures. I have not snared the birds of the gods. I have not caught fish with bait of their own bodies. I have not stopped water at its time. I have not built a dam against running water. I have not put out the fire on the hearth.
7I have not blasphemed god. I have not turned aside the cattle from the offerings to the gods. I have not given short measure. I have not spoken evil of the king. I have not slighted the god in my heart.
8Behold me — I have come to you. I bring you Maat. I have driven away wickedness for you. I have not done evil to men. I have not slain men. I have not been the cause of any man's tears.
9I am pure. I am pure. I am pure. I am pure. My purity is the purity of the great phoenix in Heracleopolis — for I am that nostril of the lord of breath who keeps every man alive on the day of filling the eye of Horus in Heliopolis.
10Hail to you, gods who dwell in this Hall of the Two Truths. I know you. I know your names. Let me not fall into your slaughter. Do not bring my wickedness to this god in whose train you are. Do not let evil come upon me through you. Speak you the truth concerning me in the presence of the great god, for I have done what was right and true in Egypt.
11I have not blasphemed the god. No accusation is made against me before the king of his day. Behold me — I have come to you, without sin, without evil, without wrongdoing, without witness against me. I live by truth. I feed on truth. I have done what men spoke of with praise, and what the gods rejoice over.
12I have given bread to the hungry, water to the thirsty, clothing to the naked, a boat to him that had none. I have made offerings to the gods, and offerings of food to the dead.
13Save me, defend me. Do not testify against me. Behold — I am one who has come forth in justification. I am one who is purified. The Osiris N is justified — true of voice — before the great god.