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(Nisaba speaks:) XX spend (?) your time on the hill! XX. Enter XX! And may abundance precede you XX! May the people line up for you XX; may all the people XX for you. Your XX which I have determined for you should be fulfilled; XX with head held high into the Eš-mah.
Aruru grasped her XX and XX her away into the Eš-mah. She brought her into the shining E-kur, and poured the best perfume over her face. In the sleeping quarters, in the flowered bed fragrant like a cedar forest, Enlil made (?) love to his wife and took great pleasure in it. He sat her (?) on his dais appropriate to the status of Enlil, and made the people pray to her. The lord whose statements are powerful also determined a fate for the Lady Aruru, the woman of his favour; he gave her the name Nintur, the 'Lady who gives birth', the 'Lady who spreads her knees'. He made beautiful En-batibira's perhaps a name of Aruru countenance, XX. He presented her with the XX of a mistress, everything pertaining to women that no man must see, and XX.
(Enlil speaks:) From now on, a woman shall be the XX; a woman shall be the mistress of the house. May my favourite wife, who was born by holy Nisaba, be Ezina, the grain, the life of the Land. When she appears in the furrows like a beautiful young girl, may XX be her provider, watering her with water from the ground, as she grows prime grain and prime flax XX  XX the harvest crop XX the great festival of Enlil XX. XX, the measuring rod, the marking of the boundaries, and the preparation of canals and levees are fittingly in your hands. The farmer entrusted cultivation into your hands. Proud woman, surpassing the mountains! You who always fulfil your desires -- from now on, Sud, Enlil is the king and Ninlil is the queen. The goddess without name has a famous name now, XX  May it be you who determine that destiny XX attends to it XX.
As the presents are given in the shrine Nibru, a holy song of praise is sung. Enlil, the lord of the countries, XX.