Behold! there cometh forth the Lord of Life, Osiris thy support, who abideth day after day.
I embrace the Sycomore,([21]) I am united to the Sycomore.
I part the two deities of morning that I may come to hold the Eye,([22]) and cause it to rest in its place.
I am come to see Râ at his setting, and I unite with the breeze at his coming forth: my two hands are pure for adoring him.
May I be restored! May I be restored!
I fly up to heaven and I alight upon the earth; and mine eye turneth back there towards the traces of my footsteps.
I am the offspring of Yesterday; the tunnels([23]) of the earth have given me birth, and I am revealed at my appointed time.
May I be under shelter from the warlike handed god who cometh behind me, may my flesh be sound and may my glories be a protection to the limbs of one who waiteth for the purpose of taking counsel. May the Cycle of the gods listen to what I say.
To be said on coming forth by day; that one may not be kept back on the path of the Tuat, whether on entering or on coming forth; for taking all the forms which one desireth; and that the soul of the person die not a second time.
If then this chapter be known the person is made triumphant upon earth [and in the Netherworld] and he performeth all things which are done by the living.