ETCSLglossingSignSign name: EDIN
Values: bir4, edimx, edin, ru6
Proverbs: collection 23 (c.6.1.23), line c6123.B.23.7.6
damnu-il2dumunu-il2
DAMNU-IL2DUMUNU-IL2
damil2dumuil2
spouseto raisechildto raise
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Paragraph t6123.p6 (line(s) 3-12) Click line no. for paragraph-aligned layout of transliteration and translation.
(cf. 6.1.01.153, 6.1.01.159, 6.1.02.62, 6.1.02.142, 6.1.03.9, 6.1.16.b4-5, 6.1.22: ll. 26-27, 6.1.25.7)A …… shepherd's sex appeal is his testicles (?); a gardener's is his hair. …… a waterskin. He who does not support a wife, and who does not support a son. Although the dishonest man was unable to build his own house, he came to serve as a construction worker at my friend's house. A dishonest man chases after women's genitals; an unreliable man has two sickles. A house built by a righteous man is destroyed by a treacherous man.
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