Genesis 11:3 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

³ And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” And they had brick for stone, and bitumen for mortar.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ And they said one to another, Come, let us make bricks and burn them thoroughly. So they had brick for stone, and slime (bitumen) for mortar.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ And they said one to another, Come, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar.

Common English Bible

³ They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them hard.” They used bricks for stones and asphalt for mortar.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ And each one said to his neighbor, "Come, let us make bricks, and bake them with fire." And they had bricks instead of stones, and pitch instead of mortar.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ And each one said to his neighbour: Come, let us make brick, and bake them with fire. And they had brick instead of stones, and slime instead of mortar.

Genesis 11:3 Cross References

Genesis 11:4

Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.”

Genesis 11:7

Come, let us go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.”

Genesis 14:10

Now the Valley of Siddim was full of bitumen pits; and as the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, some fell into them, and the rest fled to the mountain.

2 Samuel 12:31

And he brought forth the people who were in it, and set them to labor with saws and iron picks and iron axes, and made them toil at the brickkilns; and thus he did to all the cities of the Ammonites. Then David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.

Psalm 64:5

They hold fast to their evil purpose; they talk of laying snares secretly, thinking, “Who can see us?

Exodus 1:14

and made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and brick, and in all kinds of work in the field; in all their work they made them serve with rigor.

Exodus 2:3

And when she could hide him no longer she took for him a basket made of bulrushes, and daubed it with bitumen and pitch; and she put the child in it and placed it among the reeds at the river's brink.

Proverbs 1:11

If they say, “Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, let us wantonly ambush the innocent;

Ecclesiastes 2:1

I said to myself, “Come now, I will make a test of pleasure; enjoy yourself.” But behold, this also was vanity.

Isaiah 5:5

And now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will remove its hedge, and it shall be devoured; I will break down its wall, and it shall be trampled down.

Isaiah 65:3

a people who provoke me to my face continually, sacrificing in gardens and burning incense upon bricks;

Isaiah 9:10

“The bricks have fallen, but we will build with dressed stones; the sycamores have been cut down, but we will put cedars in their place.”

Nahum 3:14

Draw water for the siege, strengthen your forts; go into the clay, tread the mortar, take hold of the brick mold!

Hebrews 10:24

and let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works,

Hebrews 3:13

But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

James 4:13

Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and get gain”;

James 5:1

Come now, you rich, weep and howl for the miseries that are coming upon you.