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otherwise, this sin will not depart from her in any manner (naval).
II. And one calls this sin a sin affecting antagonists, and, so long as the antagonist does not become satisfied, the sin flows ons, and they keep his soul back at the head of the Kinyad bridge, till the time that its antagonist shall arrive and himself accomplishes his antagonism, and they give him back a reply:
Chapter LXIV. 1. The sixty-fourth subject is this, that it is necessary to practise great abstinence from committing theft and seizing anything from mankind
by force.
2. For it is declared in revelation that, as to every one who steals one dirham away from another, when they really know it, it is necessary to take two dirhams away from him; one dirham being that which was carried off, and one dirham as the fine of him who committed the theft. 3. It is also requisite to cut off one ear, and it is necessary to strike ten blows with a stick, and to detain him one period in prison.
1 B29 omits these eleven words. ? Or accusers (see Chap. XLII, 1, 2).
3 B29 has 'it flows on,' if we read bi-rêzad; but the Gugarāti translator seems to take gunâh-barêzad (Av. berezant) as a technical epithet for the soul, as though he would say they keep back the soul of him whose sin is rampant.'
That is, the investigating angels announce their decision as to the proper fate of the soul they have detained.
5 B29, J15 have 'violence.' :. A silver coin of 63 grains in weight, or about 5$ annas (see Dd. LII, 1 n); say, seven-pence.
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