"All those who have done odious deeds will be seated here into the stocks, until the Euphrates dries up at its mouth and the Tigris changes its course, until all the seas dry up and all the rivers, brooks and springs have overflowed."
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Left Ginza 3.11:33-38. In: Gelbert, Carlos (2011). Ginza Rba. Sydney: Living Water Books, p. 126-7. ISBN 9780958034630.
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