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And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” So they used brick instead of stone, and tar instead of mortar.

…and made their lives bitter with hard labor in brick and mortar, and with all kinds of work in the fields. Every service they imposed was harsh.

They were piled into countless heaps, and there was a terrible stench in the land.

If a man consecrates to the LORD a parcel of his land, then your valuation shall be proportional to the seed required for it—fifty shekels of silver for every homer of barley seed.

All that day and night, and all the next day, the people stayed up gathering the quail. No one gathered less than ten homers, and they spread them out all around the camp.

…how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who can be crushed like a moth!

Please remember that You molded me like clay. Would You now return me to dust?

Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.

Though he heaps up silver like dust and piles up a wardrobe like clay,

He throws me into the mud, and I have become like dust and ashes.

I am just like you before God; I was also formed from clay.

The earth takes shape like clay under a seal; its hills stand out like the folds of a garment.

For ten acres of vineyard will yield but a bath of wine, and a homer of seed only an ephah of grain.”

I will send him against a godless nation; I will dispatch him against a people destined for My rage, to take spoils and seize plunder, and to trample them down like clay in the streets.

You have turned things upside down, as if the potter were regarded as clay. Shall what is formed say to him who formed it, “He did not make me”? Can the pottery say of the potter, “He has no understanding”?

I have raised up one from the north, and he has come—one from the east who calls on My name. He will march over rulers as if they were mortar, like a potter who treads the clay.

Woe to him who quarrels with his Maker—one clay pot among many. Does the clay ask the potter, ‘What are you making?’ Does your work say, ‘He has no hands’?

But now, O LORD, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You are the potter; we are all the work of Your hand.

But the vessel that he was shaping from the clay became flawed in his hand; so he formed it into another vessel, as it seemed best for him to do.

“O house of Israel, declares the LORD, can I not treat you as this potter treats his clay? Just like clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in My hand, O house of Israel.

The ephah and the bath shall be the same quantity so that the bath will contain a tenth of a homer, and the ephah a tenth of a homer; the homer will be the standard measure for both.

This is the contribution you are to offer: a sixth of an ephah from each homer of wheat, and a sixth of an ephah from each homer of barley.

The prescribed portion of oil, measured by the bath, is a tenth of a bath from each cor (a cor consists of ten baths or one homer, since ten baths are equivalent to a homer).

So I bought her for fifteen shekels of silver and a homer and a lethech of barley.

Draw your water for the siege; strengthen your fortresses. Work the clay and tread the mortar; repair the brick kiln!

You trampled the sea with Your horses, churning the great waters.