I passed on to the Gate of the Well and the King’s Pool, where there was not enough room for my animal to pass with me.

Now the city was spread out and large, and there were not a lot of people in it. At that time houses had not been rebuilt.

We did not change clothes – not I, nor my relatives, nor my workers, nor the watchmen who were with me. Each had his weapon, even when getting a drink of water.

And now, though we share the same flesh and blood as our fellow countrymen, and our children are just like their children, still we have found it necessary to subject our sons and daughters to slavery. Some of our daughters have been subjected to slavery, while we are powerless to help, since our fields and vineyards now belong to other people.”