[274] Look at the rainbow, and glorify Him who created it: it is beautiful in its radiance! With her majestic circle she embraces the sky; The hands of the Most High stretched it out.

[275] And this Seated One was like a stone of jasper and sardis; and a rainbow around the throne, similar in appearance to smaragdus.

[276] And I saw another mighty angel coming down from heaven, clothed with a cloud; Over his head was a rainbow, and his face was like the sun, and his feet were like pillars of fire

[277] In all the earth there was one language and one dialect.

[278] And the eldest said to the younger, "Our father is old, and there is not a man on earth who will come to us according to the custom of all the earth;

[279] From one blood He made the whole human race to dwell on all the face of the earth, appointing predestined times and limits for their habitation...

[280] Therefore, whoever thinks that he is standing, take heed lest he fall.

[281] And say to them, 'This is what the Lord says: Do they not get up when they fall, and turn away from the way, and return?

[282] Whoever curses his father or his mother must be put to death.

[283] Fear every man your mother and your father, and keep my sabbath. I am the Lord your God.

[284] For God has commanded: honor your father and mother; And he who curses his father or mother, let him die.

[285] The eye that mocks the father and disdains obedience to the mother will be pecked out by the ravens of the valley, and the eagle chicks will be devoured!

[286] For this you are cursed! you will be slaves without end, chopping wood and drawing water for the house of my God.

[287] All the people who were left of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, the Jebusites, and the Gergashites, who were not of the children of Israel, and their 21 children who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel could not destroy, Solomon made tithe-laborers to this day.