And thou be chosen of the stock of Cin, how long shalt thou be able to continue? For Assur shall take thee captive.
Take with you words, and return to the Lord, and say to him: Take away all iniquity, and receive the good: and we will render the calves of our lips.
For the lawgiver shall give a blessing, they shall go from virtue to virtue: the God of gods shall be seen in Sion.
And they came to Zorobabel, and the chief of the fathers, and said to them: Let us build with you, for we seek your God as ye do. Behold, we have sacrificed to him, since the days of Asor Haddan king of Assyria, who brought us hither.
The sons of Sem: Elam and Assur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram.
Out of that land came forth Assur, and built Ninive, and the streets of the city, and Chale.
Of Sem also, the father of all children of Heber, the elder brother of Japheth, sons were born.
The Cineans and Cenezites, the Cedmonites,
And taking up his parable, again he said: Alas, who shall live when God shall do these things?