21.7 gone to Hazor? How about its ford? let me go to Hamath,
21.8 to Takar, to Takar-Aar, the all-assembling place of the Mohars; come
22.1 then, on the road that leads there. Make me to see Jah. How has one
got to Matamim?
22.2 Do not repel us by thy teachings; make us to know them.
_Section 4_
22.3 I will speak to thee of the towns other than the preceding ones.
Wentest thou not to the land of Takhis, to Cofer-Marlon, to Tamena,
22.4 to Qodesh, to Dapour, to Adjai, and to Harnemata? Hast thou not seen
Keriath-Anab, near to
22.5 Beith-Tuphar? Knowest them not Odulam and Tsidphoth? Knowest thou not
the name of
22.6 Khaouretsa, which is in the land of Aup? 'Tis a bull on his frontier,
the place where one sees the battle (melee)
22.7 of the brave ones. Come then to the image of Sina: let me know Rohob:
22.8 represent to me Beith-Sheal as well as Keriathaal. The fords of the
23.1 Jordan, how does one cross them? let me know the passage to enter
Mageddo, whereof it remains to speak. Thou art a Mohar,
23.2 expert in courageous deeds. Is there found a Mohar like thee to march
at the head of the soldiers, a Marina
23.3 superior to thee to shoot an arrow! Take care of the gulf in the
ravine 2,000 cubits deep, full of rocks and rolling stones.
23.4 Thou makest a _detour_: seizest thy bow; preparest the iron in thy
left hand; showest thyself to the good chiefs.
23.5 Their eye looks down at thy hand: "Slave, give camel for the Mohar to
eat." Thou makest thy name of Mohar known,
23.6 master of the captains of Egypt; thy name becomes like that of
Kadjarti, the Chief of Assur, after his encounter with
23.7 the hyenas in the wood, on the defile infected by the wood-hidden
Shasous.
23.8 Some of these were four cubits from the nose to the heel: fierce
without mildness, not listening to caresses.
23.9 Thou art alone, no guide with thee, nor troop behind thee. Didst thou
not meet the Marmar? He makes thee
24.1 pass: thou must decide on departing, and knowest not the road.
Anxiety seizes thee, thy hair bristles up:
24.2 thy soul places itself in thy hand: thy way is full of rocks and
rolling stones, no practicable passage; the road is obstructed by
24.3 hollies, nopals,(460) aloes and bushes called "dog-wolf's shoes." On
one side is the precipice, on the other rises the vertical wall of the
mountain.
24.4 Thou must advance going down. Thy car strikes the wall and thy horses
are startled b
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