Genesis 11:3 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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 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.

Genesis 11:3 Cross References

Genesis 14:10

Now the vale of Siddim was full of slime pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and they fell there, and they that remained fled to the mountain.

Exodus 2:3

And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch; and she put the child therein, and laid it in the flags by the river's brink.

Exodus 1:14

and they made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field, all their service, wherein they made them serve with rigour.

James 5:1

Go to now, ye rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you.

Hebrews 10:24

and let us consider one another to provoke unto love and good works;

Hebrews 3:13

but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called Today; lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin:

Isaiah 9:10

The bricks are fallen, but we will build with hewn stone: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.

2 Samuel 12:31

And he brought forth the people that were therein, and put them under saws, and under harrows of iron, and under axes of iron, and made them pass through the brickkiln: and thus did he unto all the cities of the children of Ammon. And David and all the people returned unto Jerusalem.

James 4:13

Go to now, ye that say, Today or tomorrow we will go into this city, and spend a year there, and trade, and get gain:

Nahum 3:14

Draw thee water for the siege, strengthen thy fortresses: go into the clay, and tread the mortar, make strong the brickkiln.

Isaiah 65:3

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

Isaiah 5:5

And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; I will break down the fence thereof, and it shall be trodden down:

Ecclesiastes 2:1

I SAID in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth; therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also was vanity.

Proverbs 1:11

If they say, Come with us, Let us lay wait for blood, Let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause;

Psalm 64:5

They encourage themselves in an evil purpose; They commune of laying snares privily; They say, Who shall see them?

Genesis 11:7

Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.

Genesis 11:4

And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven, and let us make us a name; lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.