39. "Come [at] night, our time of festival, let us take our ease therein,
40. "Come, the staff shall rule ...
41. "On the day that we reach [thereto] we will take our ease therein."
42. On hearing this Marduk ...
43. The features of his face [shone like] the day exceedingly.
44. [He said),[45] "Like unto ... Babylon, the construction whereof ye desire
45. "I will make ... a city, I will fashion a splendid shrine."
46. The Anunnaki worked the mould [for making bricks], their bricks were ...
47. In the second year [the shrine was as high as] a hill, and the summit of E-Sagila reached the [celestial] Ocean.
48. They made the ziggurat[46] [to reach] the celestial Ocean; unto Marduk, Enlil, Ea [shrines] they appointed,