Back, in retreat! Back, Crocodile Sui! Come not against me, who live by the Words of Power.([1])
I utter([2]) that Name of the great god, who granteth that two of his Messengers[[49]] should come; the name of one is Batta([3]), and the name of the other is Thine Aspect is Fixed Law.([4])
Heaven determineth([5]) its hour; my Word of Power determineth all that which concerneth it; and my mouth determineth my Word of Power. I eat, and my teeth are like flint, and my grinders are like the Cliff of Tuf.([6])
O thou who art sitting([7]) with a watchful eye against this my Word of Power; do not thou carry it off, O Crocodile who livest by thine own Word of Power.
Notes.
This chapter is but rarely found in the more ancient collections. It was on the coffin of Queen Mentuhotep, but M. Naville gives the readings of only two early papyri. The later recensions add a text which we shall find later on in chapter 69, and which has no connection whatever with the present chapter.
[1.] The Words of Power are supplied to the deceased by Thoth in chapter 23.
[2.] The Turin text and those which agree with it read “Do not thou utter,” as if the Crocodile were about to use the Word of Power. I read
