A hymn on the bull offered in God's name and given in charity.

1 The Bull, fierce, thousandfold, filled full of vigour, bearing within his flanks all forms and natures, the Steer, a gift of the Lord of Prayer, hath stretched the thread, bestowing bliss on the worshipper, the liberal giver. He who at first became the waters' model, a match for everyone, like the Earth; the husband of the cows, the young calves' father, may he secure us thousandfold abundance.

3 Masculine, pregnant, stedfast, full of vigour, the Bull sustains a trunk of goodly treasure. May our offering of him, made for God's sake, ascend by the pathways traversed by the angels, and our devotion reach God the Mighty.

4 The husband of the cows, the young calves' father, father is he of mighty water-eddies. Calf, after-birth, new milk drawn hot, and biestings, curds, butter, that is his best genial humour.

5 He is the share allotted for God's sake, the essence of waters, and of plants, and butter. The Mighty chose him, the draught of the provision. His body was as a lofty mountain.

6 A beaker filled with the juice thou bearest, begetter of the cattle. Kindly to us be these thy wombs here present, and stay for us those that are yonder.

7 He bears the offering, and his seed is butter. Thousandfold plenty; offering they call him. May he, the Bull, mighty as a champion, come unto us, bestowed with blessing.

8 Strength and vigour is he, the shoulders of the strong; they who are sages, bards endowed with wisdom, call him compact and heightened.

9 Thou, vigorous, reachest to the tribes of heaven. Turned to one aim, that scholar gives a thousand who offers up the Bull as his offering.

10 God gave thee vital vigour: thy breath was brought by the Creator and by the wind. In thought I offer thee in air's mid-region for God's sake. Thy sacrificial grass be earth and heaven!

11 Let the priest joyfully extol the limbs and members of the Bull who moved and roared among the kine.

16 They gave the hooves to tortoises, scraps of the feet to the hound: his undigested food they gave to worms and things that creep and crawl.

17 That Bull, the husband of the kine, pierces the demons with his horns, banishes famine with his eye, and hears good tidings with his ears.

18 With a hundred acts of worship he worships: the fires consume him not: God favours the scholar who offers the Bull in due season.

19 He who hath given away the Bull to the learned frees and cheers his soul. In his own cattle-pen he sees the growth and increase of his cows.

20 Let there be cattle, let there be bodily strength and progeny: all this may God kindly grant to him who gives away the Bull.

21 God is well pleased here: may He bestow conspicuous wealth. May He draw forth at will from yonder side of heaven a deft cow, good to milk, whose calf is never wanting.

22 With close connexion mingle with the cows in this our cattle-pen: mingle, thou, the Bull's prolific flow, and thy heroic strength!

23 Here we restore this Bull, your youthful leader: sporting with him, go, wander at your pleasure. Ne'er, wealthy ones! may he be reft of offspring; and do ye favour us with growth of riches.