Judgment part 1: standing before the divine judges
At the completion of the underworld journey, the dead arrived at the Hall of Final Judgment. Here they stood before 42 divine judges and pleaded their innocence of any wrongdoing during their lifetime. The Book of the Dead provided them with the correct words to use for each of the judges, ensuring that they would pass this part of the judgment process even if they had not been completely innocent.
Spell 125 from the Book of the Dead belonging to a person named Horemakhbit
Papyrus
New Kingdom, 20th Dynasty (about 1186 BCE - 1069 BCE)
From Thebes
National Museum of Antiquities, Leiden
© National Museum of Antiquities, the Netherlands
Spell 125 includes the words to be recited while standing before the 42 judges.
