Genesis 11:3

Bible in Basic English 1965

And they said one to another, Come, let us make bricks, burning them well. And they had bricks for stone, putting them together with sticky earth.

Cross References

Genesis 11:4

And they said, Come, let us make a town, and a tower whose top will go up as high as heaven; and let us make a great name for ourselves, so that we may not be wanderers over the face of the earth.

Genesis 11:7

Come, let us go down and take away the sense of their language, so that they will not be able to make themselves clear to one another.

Genesis 14:10

Now the valley of Siddim was full of holes of sticky earth; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah were put to flight and came to their end there, but the rest got away to the mountain.

2 Samuel 12:31

And he took the people out of the town and put them to work with wood-cutting instruments, and iron grain-crushers, and iron axes, and at brick-making: this he did to all the towns of the children of Ammon. Then David and all the people went back to Jerusalem.

Psalm 64:5

They make themselves strong in an evil purpose; they make holes for secret nets; they say, Who will see it,

Exodus 1:14

And made their lives bitter with hard work, making building-material and bricks, and doing all sorts of work in the fields under the hardest conditions.

Exodus 2:3

And when she was no longer able to keep him secret, she made him a basket out of the stems of water-plants, pasting sticky earth over it to keep the water out; and placing the baby in it she put it among the plants by the edge of the Nile.

Proverbs 1:11

If they say, Come with us; let us make designs against the good, waiting secretly for the upright, without cause;

Ecclesiastes 2:1

I said in my heart, I will give you joy for a test; so take your pleasurebut it was to no purpose.

Isaiah 5:5

And now, this is what I will do to my vine-garden: I will take away the circle of thorns round it, and it will be burned up; its wall will be broken down and the beasts of the field will go through it;

Isaiah 65:3

A people who make me angry every day, making offerings in gardens, and burning perfumes on bricks.

Isaiah 9:10

The bricks have come down, but we will put up buildings of cut stone in their place: the sycamores are cut down, but they will be changed to cedars.

Nahum 3:14

Get water for the time when you are shut in, make strong your towns: go into the potter's earth, stamping it down with your feet, make strong the brickworks.

Hebrews 10:24

And let us be moving one another at all times to love and good works;

Hebrews 3:13

But give comfort to one another every day as long as it is still Today; so that no one among you may be made hard by the deceit of sin:

James 4:13

How foolish it is to say, Today or tomorrow we will go into this town, and be there for a year and do business there and get wealth:

James 5:1

Come now, you men of wealth, give yourselves to weeping and crying because of the bitter troubles which are coming to you.