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Punish the one who commits the crime;
Punish the evildoer alone.

Ea to Enlil, as related by Utnapishtim in Gilgamesh: Translated from the Sîn-​leqi-​unninnī version by John Gardner and John Maier (1984), Tablet XI, Column iv.

Pictured above: Babylonian Gilgamesh Tablet, British Museum

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