The Egyptian Book of the Dead

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Preservation of the Soul

English · E. A. Wallis Budge

Preservation of the Soul [From the Papyrus of Ani (British Museum No. 10,470, sheet 15).]

The Chapter of not letting the soul of a man be taken from him in the underworld. Osiris, the Scribe Ani, saith:

English · E. A. Wallis Budge

“I, even I, am he who came forth from the water-flood which I make to overflow, and which becometh mighty as the river [Nile].”

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The Book of the Dead, tr. E. A. Wallis BudgeTranslation · English · E. A. Wallis Budge, 1901

E. A. Wallis Budge's translation (1901). Budge's readings of Egyptian are outdated in many places, and names follow his spellings (Tem for Atum, for example). Square brackets are his additions.

The Book of the Dead according to the Theban Recension, translated by E. A. Wallis Budge, in Egyptian Literature, ed. Epiphanius Wilson (New York: Colonial Press, 1901). Public domain. Transcribed and proofread by English Wikisource volunteers; chapter numbers from Budge's The Book of the Dead: An English Translation (1901). · Source ↗

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