Genesis 11:3

Catholic Public Domain Version

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.

Cross References

Genesis 11:4

And they said: "Come, let us make a city and a tower, so that its height may reach to heaven. And let us make our name famous before we are divided into all the lands."

Genesis 11:7

Therefore, come, let us descend, and in that place confound their tongue, so that they may not listen, each one to the voice of his neighbor."

Genesis 14:10

Now the wooded valley had many pits of bitumen. And so the king of Sodom and the king of Gomorrah turned back and they fell there. And those who remained, fled to the mountain.

2 Samuel 12:31

Also, bringing forth its people, he sawed them, and he drove over them with iron wagons, and he divided them with knives, and he dragged them through brick kilns. So he did to all the citizens of the sons of Ammon. And David returned, with the entire army, to Jerusalem.

Psalm 64:5

Blessed is he whom you have chosen and taken up. He will dwell in your courts. We will be filled with the good things of your house. Holy is your temple:

Exodus 1:14

And they led their life directly into bitterness, with hard work in clay and brick, and with all kinds of servitude, so that they were being overwhelmed with the works of the land.

Exodus 2:3

And when she was no longer able to hide him, she took a small basket woven of bulrushes, and she smeared it with pitch as well as tar. And she placed the little infant inside, and she laid him in the sedges by the bank of the river.

Proverbs 1:11

If they should say: "Come with us. We will lie in wait for blood. We will lay traps against the innocent, without cause.

Ecclesiastes 2:1

I said in my heart: "I will go forth and overflow with delights, and I will enjoy good things." And I saw that this, too, is emptiness.

Isaiah 5:5

And now, I will reveal to you what I will do to my vineyard. I will take away its fence, and it will be plundered. I will pull down its wall, and it will be trampled.

Isaiah 65:3

to a people who provoke me to anger before my face continually, who immolate in the gardens, and who sacrifice upon the bricks.

Isaiah 9:10

"The bricks have fallen, but we will build with squared stones. They have cut down the sycamores, but we will replace them with cedars."

Nahum 3:14

Draw in water because of the blockade; build up your fortresses. Go into the clay and tread; work it to make brick.

Hebrews 10:24

And let us be considerate of one another, so as to prompt ourselves to charity and to good works,

Hebrews 3:13

Instead, exhort one another every day, while it is still called 'today,' so that none of you may become hardened through the falseness of sin.

James 4:13

But who are you to judge your neighbor? Consider this, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go into that city, and certainly we will spend a year there, and we will do business, and we will make our profit,"

James 5:1

Act now, you who are wealthy! Weep and wail in your miseries, which will soon come upon you!