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1And on that day the building was finished, but the tower was not completed, for it was going to be built on to, and there was a pause in the building. And the six men commanded all the builders to retire a little and rest, but they commanded the maidens not to go away from the tower. And it seemed to me that the maidens had given up looking after the tower. 2But after they had all gone away and were resting I said to the shepherd: “Why, Sir,” said I, “was the building of the tower not completed?” “The tower,” said he, “cannot yet be completed unless its lord come and test this building, in order that if some stones prove to be rotten, he may change them, for the tower is being built according to his will.” 3“I should like, Sir,” said I, “to know what is this building of the tower, and concerning the rock, and the gate, and the mountains and the maidens, and the stones which came up from the deep place, and were not hewn, but went as they were into the building. 4And why ten stones were first laid for the foundation, then twenty, then thirty-five, then forty, and concerning the stones which went into the building, and were taken away again and put back in their own place. Give my soul rest concerning all these things, Sir, and let me know them.” 5“If,” said he, “you are not found to be vainly zealous, you shall know all things. For after a few days we will come here, and you shall see the rest of what happens to this tower, and you will know all the parables accurately.” 6And after a few days we came to the place where we had sat, and he said to me: “Let us go to the tower, for the master of the tower is coming to examine it.” And we came to the tower, and there was nobody by it at all, except only the maidens. 7And the shepherd asked the maidens if the Lord of the tower had come. And they said that he was about to come, to examine the building.