37. _Covereth._ The right Egyptian word here, as in a similar passage in Chapter 17, is uncertain, but the meaning is plain enough. There are many pictures showing a divinity (the sun or moon-god) hidden within or behind a tree. 38. _That the Balance may be set upon its stand within the bower of amaranth._ _Cf._ the passage (Rochemonteix, _Edfou_, p. 191) where mention is made of the divine powers which animate the Princes who are in the train of Osiris and who lift the Balance upon the stand before them ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂. _Amaranth_ (see Note 3 of Chapter 26) is only one of the readings of this doubtful text. 39. _Disasters_, ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂ bad luck, misfortune. See my note on this word, _T.S.B.A._, II, p. 313. 40. _Grasshoppers_, ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂. The similar word סלעם, which only occurs in Lev. xi, 22, does not appear to be Semitic. It is a sufficiently familiar word in Egyptian to serve as a term in comparison, ‘as plentiful as grasshoppers.’ 41. The text here is quite uncertain. The Turin _Todtenbuch_ has “the fourth hour of the Night and the eighth hour of the Day,” which does not agree with any early reading. _Cd._ has “the fourth hour of the Night and of the Day.” Several papyri have the “second hour of the Night and the third ⁂⁂⁂ of the Day.” It was in this passage, as written in B.M. 9904, that, in the year 1860, I found the phonetic value of the Egyptian number 3: a discovery first ascribed by Brugsch[134] to Goodwin, and afterwards by others to Brugsch himself. 42. _The hearts of the gods are appeased_, ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂. _Cf._ ⲛⲁⲓ, ἱλάσκεσθαι, and ⲛⲁⲏⲧ, ἐλεήμων, οἰκτίρμων. This explains Pap. Prisse XVII, 6 ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂. 43. _Let him come._ ⁂⁂⁂ is a tolerably certain reading, but it is not possible to say what should be the word preceding this. The scribes have written ‘there he cometh,’ ‘we grant that he come,’ ‘I grant,’ ‘let him be brought in,’ and the like. 44. _He who groweth under the Grass_, ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂. 45. _A thigh_, ⁂⁂⁂, also written ⁂⁂. 46. _See the greetings_: φωνῇ γαρ ὁρῶ, τὸ φατιζόμενον, _Oedip. Col._ 138. 47. _The Leaf_, ⁂⁂⁂. 48. _Pointer_ [or _Plummet_] _of Truth_, ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂. 49. _The Scale Pan_, ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂, ⁂⁂⁂. 50. _The Dragon Brood_, ⁂⁂⁂⁂. 51. _The Truncheon of Hathor_, ⁂⁂⁂ does not appear to be a very familiar word to the scribes, who write it in the most diverse ways possible; one of them even understanding it as the ‘opening of heaven’ ⁂⁂. All that we can say is that the word is shown by its determinative to be of _wood_, and by its etymology (_cf._ ⁂⁂, ⁂) to serve for _striking_, _blinding_, or _slaying_. Some of the texts name Hathor, and others Nephthys. The sign ⁂ occurs in both names, and the scribes have read the rest of the name as best they could.