They said one to another, “Come, let us make bricks and fire them thoroughly [in a kiln, to harden and strengthen them].” So they used brick for stone [as building material], and they used tar (bitumen, asphalt) for mortar.

Drink

He drank some of the wine and became drunk, and he was uncovered and lay exposed inside his tent.

Do not look at wine when it is red,
When it sparkles in the glass,
When it goes down smoothly.

“Woe (judgment is coming) to you who make your neighbors drink,
Who mix in your venom to make them drunk
So that you may look at their nakedness!

Seed

‘No one shall approach any blood relative of his to uncover nakedness (have intimate relations). I am the Lord.

“Teacher, Moses wrote for us [a law] that if a man’s brother dies and leaves a wife but leaves no child, his brother is to

marry the widow and raise up children for his brother.

General references

Wine is a mocker, strong drink a riotous brawler;
And whoever is intoxicated by it is not wise.