7/21/2023 0 Comments Ipuwer papyrus text cnn![]() Indeed, hair for everybody, and the man of rank can no longer be distinguished from him who is nobody. Those who were Egyptians foreigners and are thrust aside. Indeed, every dead person is as a well-born man. Indeed, laughter is perished and is made it is groaning that is throughout the land, mingled with complaints. To what purpose is a treasury without its revenues? Happy indeed is the heart of the king when truth comes to him! And every foreign land ! That is our fate and that is our happiness! What can we do about it? All is ruin! The work of craftsmen and are the profit of the palace. Lacking are grain, charcoal, irtyw-fruit, m'w-wood, nwt-wood, and brushwood. Indeed, Elephantine and Thinis of Upper Egypt, (but) without paying taxes owing to civil strife. How often do people of the oases come with their festival spices, mats, and skins, with fresh rdmt-plants, grease of birds. None shall indeed sail northward to Byblos today what shall we do for cedar trees for our mummies, and with the produce of which priests are buried and with the oil of which are embalmed as far as Keftiu? They come no more gold is lacking and materials for every kind of craft have come to an end. Indeed, the builders cultivators, and those who were in the sacred bark are now yoked. Indeed, chests of ebony are broken up, and precious ssndm-wood is cleft asunder in beds. Their bodies are in sad plight by reason of their rags, and their hearts sink when greeting. Good things are throughout the land, (yet) housewives say: "Oh that we had something to eat!" ![]() Indeed, gold and lapis lazuli, silver and turquoise, carnelian and amethyst, Ibhet-stone and are strung on the necks of maidservants. Indeed, men arrive and indeed, there are no Egyptians anywhere. Indeed, the desert is throughout the land, the nomes are laid waste, and barbarians from abroad have come to Egypt. Indeed, the well-born man through lack of recognition, and the child of his lady has become the son of his maidservant. Indeed, men are few, and he who places his brother in the ground is everywhere. Men say: "Do not walk here behold, it is a net." Behold, men tread like fishes, and the frightened man cannot distinguish it because of terror. Indeed, crocodiles with the fish they have taken, for men go to them of their own accord it is the destruction of the land. Indeed, the ship of has broken up towns are destroyed and Upper Egypt has become an empty waste. Indeed, gates, columns and walls are burnt up, while the hall of the palace stands firm and endures. Men shrink from human beings and thirst after water. Indeed, the river is blood, yet men drink of it. Indeed, trusty servants are the poor man : "How terrible! What am I to do?" Indeed, the land turns around as does a potter's wheel the robber is a possessor of riches and a plunderer. Squalor is throughout the land, and there are none indeed whose clothes are white in these times. Every town says: "Let us suppress the powerful among us." Indeed, noblemen are in distress, while the poor man is full of joy. Indeed, many dead are buried in the river the stream is a sepulcher and the place of embalmment has become a stream. Indeed, are violent, pestilence is throughout the land, blood is everywhere, death is not lacking, and the mummy-cloth speaks even before one comes near it. Indeed, men's slaves, their hearts are sad, and magistrates do not fraternize with their people when they shout. Indeed, poor men have become owners of wealth, and he who could not make sandals for himself is now a possessor of riches. Khnum fashions (men) no more because of the condition of the land. Indeed, the women are barren and none conceive. Everyone says: "We do not know what will happen throughout the land." Indeed, the Nile overflows, yet none plough for it. ![]() Indeed, the plunderer everywhere, and the servant takes what he finds. Indeed, is pale the bowman is ready, wrongdoing is everywhere, and there is no man of yesterday. ![]() Indeed, the meek say: face is as a well-born man." Indeed, the face is pale what the ancestors foretold has arrived at the land is full of confederates, and a man goes to plough with his shield. The virtuous man goes in mourning because of what has happened in the land goes the tribes of the desert have become Egyptians everywhere. Come and conquer judge what was ordained for you in the time of Horus, in the age. The bird have drawn up in line of battle of the Delta carry shields.Ī man regards his son as his enemy. Lacunae in the papyrus text are marked by. To conclude from these similarities that the Ipuwer Papyrus describes Egypt at the time of the Exodus requires a leap of faith not everybody is willing to make. Such comparisons between Egyptian texts and the bible are easily made and assuming Egyptian influence on the Hebrews is reasonable, given their at times close contacts. Fringe historians often compare the contents of this papyrus with the second book of the bible, Exodus. ![]()
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