And they said, Come now, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach to heaven; and let us make us a name, so that we will not be scattered abroad on the face of the whole earth.
And the valley of Siddim was full of slime pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there; and those who remained fled to the mountain.
And he brought forth the people that were therein, and put them to work with saws, and harrows of iron, and axes of iron, and made them pass through the brick kiln: and thus did he to all the cities of the children of Ammon. So David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.
And they made their lives bitter with hard service, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigor.
And when she could no longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the reeds by the river’s edge.
And now consider; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down: