Then they said to one another,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Come, let&#8217;s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.&#8221;<n id="2" /> (They had brick instead of stone and tar<n id="3" /> instead of mortar.)<n id="4" />

Now the Valley of Siddim was full of tar pits.<n id="1" /> When the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, they fell into them,<n id="2" /> but some survivors<n id="3" /> fled to the hills.<n id="4" />

But when she was no longer able to hide him, she took a papyrus basket<n id="1" /> for him and sealed it with bitumen and pitch. She put the child in it and set it among the reeds along the edge of the Nile.<n id="2" />