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    (Their) women who have become masters in their duties:
    High priestesses who keep (their) vow to their bridegrooms,
    Cloistered women who, with their skill, nourish the womb with life,
    Holy women who cleanse with pure water.
    They keep the prohibitions and adhere to what is sacred,
    Kneeling in prayer, armed with a supplication,
    Reverent and vigilant, mindful of good works,
    They visit the sanctuaries, seeking life.
    Skilled in benevolence, they act with propriety.
    [They (the women) are the cows] of all Babylon, the herds of Ištar,
    They (the men) are the ones freed by Marduk.
    He (scil. Marduk) will never permit them to be robbed, nor to be slandered.

    From the PDF linked on this Cambridge University Press page. The CUP themselves only included one line from that section.