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(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Marduk-šakin-šumi. Good health to the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord! (5) Concerning the ritual about which I just wrote to the king, my lord, "They should go out and perform it tomorrow" — (10) it had slipped my mind that tomorrow is the day of the city god. I was too hasty there; it is not good to g[o out] and perform it. We shall get together and perform it only on the 7th day.
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(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Marduk-šakin-šumi. Good health to the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk b[less] the king, my lord! (6) Concerning the counterspells which we earlier [had to interrupt] and did not finish performing, we could now, with the king my lord's permission, con[tinue with them]. Because of the temperature, [the ritual] was not comp[leted ...] upon the [clothes] of the l[ater] people who [......]. (r 3) At the same time we could also perform th[ose] rites of the series Šur[pu] about which I said to the king, [my] lord: "We should perform them for [...]."
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