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| 1. For crimes such as these, the masters of fate, depending upon the gravity of the offence, cut short a person’s life by twelve years or by a hundred days. |
| 2. And after that the person dies. |
| 3. And if at death there still remain unpunished crimes, the bad luck is visited upon children and grandchildren. |
| 4. And for all those who have wrongfully seized the property of others, they must compensate for it with their wives and children and other family members, even unto death. |
| 5. Those who do not die and inflicted with disasters of water, fire, theft, loss of goods, disease, slander, and more until it offsets their unlawful appropriations. |
| 6. Furthermore, for those who unlawfully killed people, it is like solders who exchange swords and kill each other. |
| 7. To seize property unjustly is like relieving hunger with putrid meat or slaking thirst with poisoned wine: |
| 8. it brings temporary satisfaction, but ultimately death. |
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