Genesis 11:3

Contemporary English Version Interconfessional Edition

they said: Let's build a city with a tower that reaches to the sky! We'll use hard bricks and tar instead of stone and mortar. We'll become famous, and we won't be scattered all over the world.

Cross References

Genesis 14:10

was full of tar pits, and when the troops from Sodom and Gomorrah started running away, some of them fell into the pits. Others escaped to the hill country.

Exodus 2:3

But when she could no longer keep him hidden, she made a basket out of reeds and covered it with tar. She put him in the basket and placed it in the tall grass along the edge of the Nile River.

Exodus 1:14

that their lives were miserable. The Egyptians were cruel to the people of Israel and forced them to make bricks and to mix mortar and to work in the fields.

James 5:1

You rich people should cry and weep! Terrible things are going to happen to you.

Hebrews 10:24

We should keep on encouraging each other to be thoughtful and to do helpful things.

Hebrews 3:13

You must encourage one another each day. And you must keep on while there is still a time that can be called “today.” If you don't, then sin may fool some of you and make you stubborn.

Isaiah 9:10

“Houses of brick and sycamore have fallen to the ground, but we will build houses with stones and cedar.”

2 Samuel 12:31

David made the people of Rabbah tear down the city walls with iron picks and axes, and then he put them to work making bricks. He did the same thing with all the other Ammonite cities. David went back to Jerusalem, and the people of Israel returned to their homes.

James 4:13

You should know better than to say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to the city. We will do business there for a year and make a lot of money!”

Nahum 3:14

Your city is under attack. Haul in extra water! Strengthen your defenses! Start making bricks! Stir the mortar!

Isaiah 65:3

They keep making me angry by sneering at me, while offering sacrifices to idols in gardens and burning incense to them on bricks.

Isaiah 5:5

Now I will let you know what I am going to do. I will cut down the hedge and tear down the wall. My vineyard will be trampled and left in ruins.

Ecclesiastes 2:1

I said to myself, “Have fun and enjoy yourself!” But this didn't make sense.

Proverbs 1:11

when they say, “Come on! Let's gang up and kill somebody, just for the fun of it!

Psalm 64:5

They are determined to do evil, and they tell themselves, “Let's set traps! No one can see us.”

Genesis 11:7

Let's go down and confuse them! We'll make them speak different languages, and they won't be able to understand each other.