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Siloam inscription

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The Siloam inscription or Silwan inscription is a passage of inscribed text in the Hezekiah tunnel in Jerusalem, written in Hebrew (related to Aramaic), the passage reads:

"The tunneling was completed... While the hewers wielded the ax, each man toward his fellow... there was heard a man's voice calling to his fellow... the hewers hacked each toward the other, ax against ax, and the water flowed from the spring to the pool, a distance of 1,200 cubits..."
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