¹⁴ you must also search and investigate and inquire thoroughly;+ and if the thing is established as the truth, this detestable thing has been done in your midst,

²⁶ To this he said: “My lord the king, it was my servant+ that tricked me. For your servant had said, ‘Let me saddle the female ass for me that I may ride upon it and go with* the king,’ for your servant is lame.+

⁸ Do not go forth to conduct a legal case hastily, that it may not be a question of what you will do in the culmination of it when your fellowman now humiliates you.+