The Egyptian Book of the dead by P. Le Page Renouf and Edouard Naville

_Chapter whereby the Heart of a person may not be taken from him in the Netherworld._ Back thou Messenger(1.) of thy god! Art thou come to carry off by violence(2.) this Whole Heart of mine, of the Living XYZZY(3.) But I shall not surrender to thee this Heart of the Living. The gods have regards to my offerings and fall upon their faces, all together, upon their own earth. NOTES. The two most ancient copies of this chapter are found upon the coffins of Amamu, Plate XXX, and of Horhotep, _Mission Arch. Française au Caire_, t. 1, p. 157, lines 335-337. The papyrus of Ani is the only one of the early period in which it occurs. None of these texts is perfect. A part of the text of Amamu has been destroyed, but there remains enough to show that Horhotep has omissions. And in the text of Ani the word ⁂⁂⁂ has slipped in from the 28th chapter, and is entirely out of place where it now stands. The scribes of a later period had to exercise their ingenuity on the subject. They changed ⁂⁂⁂ _ḫenṭu_ into ⁂⁂⁂⁂ _ḫenȧ_, and this being itself a disagreeable word, they prefixed to it a negative ⁂ or ⁂⁂⁂.