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183make them into two portions and seek after the man and also after the woman in the world to whom they have given signs, in order that they maysend them into them. And they give one portion to the man and one portion to the woman in a victual of the world or in a breath of the air or in water or in a kind which they drink.15.\into the bodies, whether of men or of birds or of cattle or of wild beasts or of reptiles or of all the other species in the world. I will tell you their type, in what type they enter into men; I will tell it you at the expansion of the universe.16.\and the other into the man in the fashion which I have told you, then theservitors secretly compel them, even if they are removed at very great distance from one another, so that they concert to be in a concert of the world. And the counterfeiting spirit which is in the man, cometh to the portion which is entrusted to the world in the matter of his body, and lifteth it and casteth it down into the womb of the woman [into the portion] which is entrusted to the seed of wickedness.17.\her womb and take up their abode in it. The servitors bring the two portions the one to the other, and moreover the servitors withhold the blood of all the food of the woman which she will eat and which she will drink, and they withhold [it] in the womb of the woman upto forty days. And after forty days they knead the blood of the power of all the food and knead it well in the woman's womb.18.\the body of the man; each buildeth a member. I will tell you the decans who will build it [sc.the body]; I will tell them you at the expansion of the universe.19.\in seventy days, after this the servitors summon into the body which they have built, --first indeed they summon the counterfeiting spirit; thereafter they summon the soul within them; and thereafter they summon the compound of the power into the soul; and the destiny they put outside them all, as itis not blended with them, [but] following them and accompanying them.20.\rulers have given them. [And] they seal the day on which they have taken up their abode in the wombof the woman, --they seal [it] on the left hand of the plasm; and they seal the day on which they have completed the body, on the right hand; and they seal the day on which the rulers have handed it over to them, on the middle of the skull of the body ofthe plasm; and they seal the day on which the soul hath come forth out of the rulers, they seal it on the [left of] the skull of the plasm; and they seal the day on which they kneaded the members and separated them for a soul, they seal it on the right ofthe skull of the plasm; and the day on which they have bound the counterfeiting