Genesis 11:3 - Tree of Life Version

³ They said to one another, “Come! Let’s make bricks and bake them until they’re hard.” So they used bricks for stone, and tar 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 11:4

Then they said, “Come! Let’s build ourselves a city, with a tower whose top reaches into heaven. So let’s make a name for ourselves, or else we will be scattered over the face of the whole land.”

Genesis 11:7

Come! Let Us go down and confuse their language there, so that they will not understand each other’s language.”

Genesis 14:10

Now the Valley of the Siddim was full of tar pits, and as the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, they fell into them, and those who remained fled to the hills.

2 Samuel 12:31

Then he brought out the people who were there and put them to work under saws, iron threshing boards and iron axes, and assigned them to brick making; and thus he did to all the cities of the children of Ammon. Then David and all the troops returned to Jerusalem.

Psalm 64:5

to shoot from hiding at the innocent, shooting suddenly at him, with no fear.

Exodus 1:14

and made their lives bitter with hard labor with mortar and brick, doing all sorts of work in the fields. In all their labors they worked them with cruelty.

Exodus 2:3

But when she could no longer hide him, she took a basket of papyrus reeds, coated it with tar and pitch, put the child inside, and laid it in the reeds by the bank of the Nile.

Proverbs 1:11

Suppose they say: “Come with us! Let’s lie in wait for blood! Let’s ambush the innocent— for no reason!

Ecclesiastes 2:1

I said within myself, “Come now, I will test you with pleasure to see what is good.” Yet behold, this too was meaningless.

Isaiah 5:5

So now, I will make known to you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge, and it will be eaten up. I will break down the fence, and it will be trodden down.

Isaiah 65:3

These people provoke Me continually to My face, sacrificing in gardens, burning incense on bricks,

Isaiah 9:10

Therefore Adonai raises up Rezin’s adversaries against them, and spurs on his enemies.

Nahum 3:14

Draw water for a siege. Strengthen your fortifications! Go into the mud and tread mortar. Take hold of the brick mold.

Hebrews 10:24

And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good deeds.

Hebrews 3:13

But encourage one another day by day—as long as it is called “Today”—so 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 to such and such a town and spend a year there and engage in business and make a profit.”

James 5:1

Come now, you rich, weep and wail over the miseries that are coming upon you.