Thread

…that I will not accept even a thread, or a strap of a sandal, or anything that belongs to you, lest you should say, ‘I have made Abram rich.’

And as she was giving birth, one of them put out his hand; so the midwife took a scarlet thread and tied it around his wrist. “This one came out first,” she announced.

Then his brother came out with the scarlet thread around his wrist, and he was named Zerah.

You who dwell by many waters, rich in treasures, your end has come; the thread of your life is cut.