Inherited or Imputed Sins
These were supposed to pursue a sick man and torment him.1
1 The mamit for him reveal! The mamit for him unfold!1 2 Against the evil spirit, disturber of his body! 3 Whether it be the sin of his father: 4 or whether it be the sin of his mother: 5 or whether it be the sin of his elder brother: 6 or whether it be the sin of someone who is unknown!2
1 A holy object, the nature of which has not been ascertained.
2 “Trans. Soc. Bib. Arch.,” vol. ii, p. 58.
Notes
1 See
“Cuneiform Inscriptions of Western Asia,” vol. iv. p. 7.