Siloam Inscription

1. [. . .] the tunneling; and this was how the tunneling was completed: as [the stonecutters wielded]
2. their picks, each crew toward the other, and while there were still three cubits to g[o], the voices of the men calling
3. each other [could be hear]d, since there was an increase (in sound) on the right [and lef]t. The day the
4. breach was made, the stonecutters hacked toward each other, pick against pick, and the water
5. flowed from the source to the pool [twel]ve hundred cubits, even though the
6. height of the rock above the heads of the stonecutte[rs] was a hundred cubits!

Translation by Robert B. Coote, ABD VI:24

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