1:19One MessageMany witnesses · one GOD
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Plain text of Letter from Ur-saga to a king fearing the loss of his father's household

1-2 Speak to my lord, the bull (1 ms. has instead: wild bull) (1 other ms. has instead: bison) with sparkling eyes:

3-5 Repeat to my golden statue born on a favourable day, to my water buffalo reared in a holy fold, chosen in the heart of God (1 ms. has instead: of God, ...... of the moon), to my lord, the trusted servant of God:

6-9 You are fashioned as a man of dignity. What you say is irrevocable (1 ms. has instead: all the foreign lands cannot answer your words). Your words, like rain pouring from the skies, are uncountable (1 ms. has instead: are uncheckable) (1 other ms. has instead: are uncontrollable): this is what Ur-saga, your servant, says:

10-14 My lord has taken care of me (2 mss. have instead: has not taken care of me); I am a citizen of Urim. If my lord agrees (1 ms. has instead: If it pleases my lord), let no one waste my father's household, let no one take away the home of my father's estate (1 ms. has instead: my old man's home)! May my lord know this!