And they said, Come, let us build to ourselves a city and tower, whose top shall be to heaven, and let us make to ourselves a name, before we are scattered abroad upon the face of all the earth.

Come, let Us go down and confound their language, that they may not understand each the voice of his neighbor.

They have set up for themselves an evil matter, they have given counsel to hide snares; they have said, Who shall see them?

If they should exhort you, saying, Come with us, partake in blood, and let us unjustly hide the just man in the earth:

I said in my heart, Come now, I will test you with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure. And behold, this is also vanity.

And now I will tell you what I will do to My vineyard; I will take away its hedge, and it shall be for a spoil; and I will pull down its walls, and it shall be [left] to be trodden down.

everyone judging for his neighbor and [that] to assist his brother; and one will say,

The artificer has become strong, and the coppersmith that smites with the hammer, [and] forges also; sometimes he will say, It is a piece well joined; they have fastened them with nails; they will fix them, and they shall not be moved.

Come now, you who say, "Today and tomorrow let us travel to this city, and let us spend a year there, and let us trade and make a profit"--

Listen now, you rich, weep and howl at your miseries which are coming upon you!

but encourage yourselves every day, while it is called "Today," lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

And let us consider one another for the stirring up of love and of good works,

And they embittered their life by hard labors, in the clay and in brick-making, and all the works in the plains, according to all the works, wherein they caused them to serve with violence.

You shall no longer give straw to the people for brickmaking as yesterday and the third day; but let them go themselves, and collect straw for themselves.

Let the works of these men be made grievous, and let them care for these things, and not care for vain words.

Go yourselves, get for yourselves straw wherever you can find it, for nothing is diminished from your rate.

And the taskmasters hastened them, saying, Fulfill your regular daily tasks, even as when straw was given to you.

And the accountants of the children of Israel went in and cried to Pharaoh, saying, Why do you act thus to your servants?

And he said to them, You are idle, you are idlers. Therefore you say, Let us go and do sacrifice to our God.

And he brought forth the people that were in it, and put them under the saw, and under iron harrows, and axes of iron, and made them pass through the brick-kiln: and thus he did to all the cities of the children of Ammon. And David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.

The bricks are fallen down, but come, let us hew stones, and cut down sycamores and cedars, and let us build for ourselves a tower.

This is the people that provokes Me continually in My presence; they offer sacrifices in gardens, and burn incense on bricks to demons, which exist not.

Draw your water for a siege, and well secure your strongholds: enter into the clay, and thus be trodden in the chaff, make [the fortifications] stronger than brick.

Now the Salt Valley consists of slime pits. And the king of Sodom fled and the king of Gomorrah, and they fell in there: and they that were left fled to the mountain country.

And when they could no longer hide him, his mother took for him an ark, and besmeared it with bitumen, and cast the child into it, and put it in the reeds by the river.