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	Chapter 10

1.	The God Mavet is glad.
2.	Baal will be delivered unto Him, and the fertility of the land will die with Him.
3.	Baal feasts His last meal, and Mavet commands Him: "I shall put Him in the grave of the Gods of the earth.
4.	And Thou, take Thy clouds, Thy wind, Thy storm, Thy rains!
5.	With Thee Thy seven lads, Thine eight swine.
6.	With Thee, Pidray, girl of Light, With Thee, Tallay, girl of rain.
7.	Then Thy face shalt Thou set toward the mountain of Kenkeny.
8.	Lift the mountain on the hands,
9.	The hill on top of the palms,
10.	And go down to the nether reaches of the earth
11.	So that Thou mayest be counted amoung those who do down into the earth,
12.	And all may know that Thou art dead!"
13.	Aliyan Baal hearkens.
14.	He loves a heifer in Deber, A young cow in the fields of Shechelmemet.
15.	He lies with Her seventy-seven times,
16.	Yea, eighty-eight times,
17.	So that She conceives And bears Moses.
18.	Baal was found dead there in the fields of Shechelmemet, in the land of Deber.
19.	The news reaches the ears of El, Father of Shunem:
20.	Thereupon the God of Mercy
21.	Goes down from the throne,
22.	Sits on the footstool,
23.	And from the footstool sits on the earth.
24.	He pours the ashes of grief on His head,
25.	The dust of wallowing on His pate.
26.	For clothing, He is covered with a doubled cloak.
27.	He roams the mountain in mourning, Yea through the forest in grief.
28.	He cuts cheek and chin,
29.	He lacerates His forearms.
30.	He plows His chest like a garden;
31.	Like a vale He lacerates His back.
32.	He lifts His voice And shouts: "Baal is dead!
33.	Woe to the people of Dagon's son!
34.	Woe to the multitudes of Athar-Baal!
35.	I shall go down into the earth."

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