and
or
show that the value is that of Seb.
[37.] Covereth. The right Egyptian word here, as in a similar passage in Chapter 17, is uncertain, but the meaning is plain enough. There are many pictures showing a divinity (the sun or moon-god) hidden within or behind a tree.
[38.] That the Balance may be set upon its stand within the bower of amaranth.
Cf. the passage (Rochemonteix, Edfou, p. 191) where mention is made of the divine powers which animate the Princes who are in the train of Osiris and who lift the Balance upon the stand before them
