dn27:18.0 9. Dividing the Rice
dn27:18.1 Then those beings gathered together and bemoaned,
dn27:18.2 ‘Oh, how wicked things have appeared among beings!
dn27:18.3 For we used to be mind-made, feeding on rapture, self-radiant, wandering in midair, steadily glorious, and we remained like that for a very long time.
dn27:18.4 After a very long period had passed, the earth’s nectar curdled in the water.
dn27:18.10 But due to bad, unskillful things among us, the earth’s nectar vanished,
dn27:18.15 then the ground-fungus vanished,
dn27:18.20 the bursting pods vanished,
dn27:18.26 and now the rice grains have become wrapped in powder and husk, it doesn’t grow back after reaping, traces are left showing, and the rice stands in clumps.
dn27:18.27 We’d better divide up the rice and lay down boundaries.’
dn27:18.28 So that’s what they did.


