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that from eating chatteringly itself is the sin, for? every one who is chattering during the eating of bread is just like him who is smiting and harassing the angels of the spiritual existences.
7. Therefore, if there be any one who is not able to consecrate a sacred cake?, it is necessary to eat bread with the inward prayer of Hôrmazd, that is, the archangels. 8. And, if he does not altogether know it, he recites the Ithà-âd-yazamaides and three Ashem-vohûs, and eats up the bread. 9. Afterwards he makes his mouth clean, and, four Ashem-vohas and two Yathâ-ahû-vairyôs being spoken out*, he is then to utter words.
10. For, every time that this custom (qa'hidat) is carried on in a place, through the first Ashem-voha so much good work has arisen that it has propitiated the sacred being, the good and propitious; through the second Ashem-vohd so much good work has arisen that it has reverenced and propitiated Srôsh, the righteous Ø ; through the third Ashem-vohů so much good work has arisen that it has reverenced and propitiated Khurdâd and Ameredad", the archangels; and through the fourth Ashem-vohû so much good work has arisen that whatever the creator Hôrmazd has created becomes reverenced and propitiated. II. And with each mouthful (luqmah) that is eaten, while the inward prayer subsists, they * B29 has from eating chatteringly is so much sin that.' See Mkh. XVI, 17 n.
3 See $ in. • These formulas begin the grace after eating, and, being uttered aloud, break the spell of the inward prayer now no longer necessary; after them the eaters are at liberty to speak.
* B29 omits these two words. . See Mkh. II, 115 n. ? See Horvadad and Amerôdad (Mkh. II, 34).
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