Paraliterary text: Or. 1080 6.19
Paraliterary text Or. 1080 6.19Tags
Description
Amulet to heal Sa‘īda daughter of Sitt al-Ahl.
Translation: Shaked, Shaul; Naveh, Joseph (in English)
Or. 1080 6.19 1v
Transcription
Translation
Shaul Shaked and Joseph Naveh, Magic spells and formulae: Aramaic incantations of late antiquity (Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 1993).-
In the name of He who is merciful and full of pity, forbearing, smiting
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and healing, we shall act and succeed. “I have waited for your salvation, O Lord” (Gen. 49:18).
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“God, God. Elohim, merciful and gracious, long-suffering
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and abundant in goodness and truth” (Ex. 34:6). By your name, El Elohim,
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the great, the mighty, and the fearsome God. By the name of Michael,
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by the name of Raphael, by the name of Gabriel,
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who are the messengers and the confidants of the living
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God, the master of the whole world, and in the name of Ra‘miel,
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and in the name of Paniel. They will remove the evil
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spirit and the eye of the people and the envious eye,
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and gaze <from> Sa‘īda daughter of Sitt al-Ahl. In the name of
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(1:12-13) these characters (combinations of characters). You holy characters
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and praised angels. Heal every one who will wear
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this (piece of) writing. May be removed from him all spirit,
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harmful spirits, evil gaze, any evil eye,
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the eye of all creatures, any evil pain that is in him,
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and any evil thing that is in the world of WHWH
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Sabaoth, with Sa‘īda
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daughter of Sitt al-[Ahl]. “The God of Jacob is her refuge
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Selah” (Ps. 46:8). May there be healing from heaven to Sa‘īda
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daughter of Sitt al-Ahl, in the two hundred and forty
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eight limbs of her body, from the sole of her foot to
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the skull, now, fast. I adjure you,
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the body, whose name is The Spirits at Night (?). In the name of
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El El El Elohim, YHWH Sabaoth
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Sabaoth Saba[oth, heal] Sa‘īda
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daughter of Sitt al-Ahl. In the name of El Qana, El Qana, El Qana,
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who appeared to Moses in the bush, that you may move away from Sa‘īda
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daughter of Sitt al-Ahl YHY YHY
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YHY (repeated several times)
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BYH BYH Sabaoth…
Or. 1080 6.19 1r
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holy and fearsome, (and) at the head God, king,
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living and existent. May you chase away every spirit and demon
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and blast demon and destroyer and fever and pain and shivering (?) from
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Sa‘īda daughter of Sitt al-Ahl and from
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the limbs that are in her. In the name of the
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exalted and trustworthy God, Amen, Amen, Amen, Selah. In the name of Shaddai Sabaoth Yah Ah Ehye El Elohim (repeated three times, followed by several combinations of letters)
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healing to Sa‘īda daughter of Sitt al-Ahl. In the name of Ḥanan’el
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the angel, and in the name of Michael the great prince,
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Sakhmuel, Ṭamiel, Qantiur, Qantiur.
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Give healing to Sa‘īda d. of Sitt al-Ahl
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and may she be healed from every pain and affliction, Amen Selah.
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(magic symbols)
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(magic symbols). In the name of you, Ṭamiel,
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I invoke the angel who is appointed over
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headache and body-ache that he may send healing
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to Sa‘īda daughter of Sitt al-Ahl. And you, praised symbols,
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angels and qeṭirayyā, (I) request of you,
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[save] Sa‘īda daughter of Sitt al-Ahl from all
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pain, affliction and suffe[ring in her bo]dy…Amen, Amen, Amen
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Selah Hallelujah.