CHAPTER XII

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_Chapter for entering and for coming forth out of the Netherworld._

Salutation to thee, O Râ, who guardest the secrets of the gates(1.) over this domain of Seb, and this Balance with which Râ raiseth up Maât (2.) daily:

Here am I, who cleave open(3.) the earth, grant that I may come and acquire advance in age.(4.)

NOTES.

This chapter, like the next, occurs only in _Pa_ among the older MSS. It comes twice in the Turin copy, being repeated as