Thematic Bible: Cement


Thematic Bible



And they will take other stones and put them in place of those stones, and he will take other paste and put it on the walls of the house.

And the house will have to be pulled down, the stones of it and the wood and the paste; and everything is to be taken out to an unclean place outside the town.


And her prophets have been using whitewash, seeing foolish visions and making false use of secret arts, saying, This is what the Lord has said, when the Lord has said nothing.


Get water for the time when you are shut in, make strong your towns: go into the potter's earth, stamping it down with your feet, make strong the brickworks.


And they said one to another, Come, let us make bricks, burning them well. And they had bricks for stone, putting them together with sticky earth.


And made their lives bitter with hard work, making building-material and bricks, and doing all sorts of work in the fields under the hardest conditions.


Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain