Genesis 11:3

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

They said to each other, ‘Come, let’s make oven-fired bricks.’ (They used brick for stone and bitumen  for mortar.)

Cross References

Genesis 14:10

Now the Siddim Valley contained many bitumen pits, and as the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, some fell into them,  but the rest fled to the mountains.

Exodus 2:3

But when she could no longer hide him, she got a papyrus basket for him and coated it with bitumen and pitch. She placed the child in it and set it among the reeds by the bank of the Nile.

Exodus 1:14

and made their lives bitter with difficult labour in brick and mortar and in all kinds of fieldwork. They ruthlessly imposed all this work on them.

James 5:1

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

Hebrews 10:24

And let us consider one another in order to provoke love and good works,

Hebrews 3:13

But encourage each other daily,  while it is still called today, so that none of you is hardened  by sin’s deception.

Isaiah 9:10

‘The bricks have fallen, but we will rebuild with cut stones; the sycamores have been cut down, but we will replace them with cedars.’

2 Samuel 12:31

He removed the people who were in the city and put them to work with saws, iron picks, and iron axes, and to labour at brickmaking.  He did the same to all the Ammonite cities. Then he and all his troops returned to Jerusalem.

James 4:13

Come now, you who say, ‘Today or tomorrow we will travel to such and such a city and spend a year there and do business and make a profit.’

Nahum 3:14

Draw water for the siege; strengthen your fortresses. Step into the clay and tread the mortar; take hold of the brick-mould!

Isaiah 65:3

These people continually anger me to my face, sacrificing in gardens, burning incense on bricks,

Isaiah 5:5

Now I will tell you what I am about to do to my vineyard: I will remove its hedge, and it will be consumed; I will tear down its wall, and it will be trampled.

Ecclesiastes 2:1

I said to myself, ‘Go ahead, I will test you with pleasure;  enjoy what is good.’ But it turned out to be futile.

Proverbs 1:11

If they say #– #‘Come with us! Let’s set an ambush  and kill someone. Let’s attack some innocent person  just for fun!

Genesis 11:7

Come, let’s go down there and confuse their language so that they will not understand one another’s speech.’

Genesis 11:4

And they said, ‘Come, let’s build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the sky.  Let’s make a name for ourselves; otherwise, we will be scattered throughout the earth.’