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Incantation Bowl from Nippur (Aramaic):
In the name of YYY the God of Israel who besits the cherubs, whose name is living and enduring forever. Elija the prophet was walking in the road and he met the wicked Lilith and all her band. He said to her: “Where are you going, foul one and Spirit of foulness, with all your foul band walking along?” And she answered and said to him: “My lord Elija, I am going to the house of the woman in childbirth who is in pangs (?), of So-and-so daughter of Such-a-one to give her the sleep of death and to take the child she is bearing, to suck his blood and to suck the marrow of his bones and to devour his flesh.” And said Elija the prophet, blessed his name: “With a ban from the Name - bless it! - shall you be restrained and like a stone shall you be!” And she answered and said to him: “For the sake of YYY postpone the ban and I will flee, and will swear to you in the name of YYY God of Israel that I will let go this business in the case of this woman in childbirth and the child to be born to her and every inmate so as do no injury. And every time that they repeat or I see my names written, it will not be in the power of me or of all my band to do evil or harm.” … And Elija answered and said to her: “Lo, I adjure you and all your band, in the name of YYY God of Israel, by gematria 613, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and in the name of his holy Shekina, and in the name of ten holy Seraphs, the Wheels and the holy Beasts and the Ten Books of the Law, and by the might of the God of Hosts, blessed is he! - that you come not, you neither your band to injure this woman or the child she is bearing, nor to drink his blood nor to suck the marrow of his bones nor to devour his flesh, nor to touch them neither in their 256 limbs nor in their 365 ligaments and veins, even as she is not able to count the number of the stars of heaven nor to dry up the water of the sea.” In the name of: Hasdiel Šamriel has rest Satan.
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Incantation Bowl from Nippur (Aramaic)
Bibliography
| Montgomery 1913, 259-260 | Montgomery, James A. Aramaic Incantation Texts from Nippur. Museum Publications of the Babylonian Section 3. Philadelphia: University Museum 1913. |
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