Genesis 11:3

God's Word

They said to one another, “Let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used bricks as stones and tar  as mortar.

Cross References

Genesis 11:4

Then they said, “Let’s build a city for ourselves and a tower with its top in the sky. Let’s make a name for ourselves so that we won’t become scattered all over the face of the earth.”

Genesis 11:7

Let us go down there and mix up their language so that they won’t understand each other.”

Genesis 14:10

The valley of Siddim was full of tar pits. As the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, they fell because of the tar pits, but the other kings fled to the hills.

2 Samuel 12:31

He brought out the troops who were there and put them to work with saws, hoes, and axes. He did the same to all the Ammonite cities. Then David and all the troops returned to Jerusalem.

Psalm 64:5

They encourage one another in their evil plans. They talk about setting traps and say, “Who can see them?”

Exodus 1:14

They made their lives bitter with back-breaking work in mortar and bricks and every kind of work in the fields. All the jobs the Egyptians gave them were brutally hard.

Exodus 2:3

When she couldn’t hide him any longer, she took a basket made of papyrus plants and coated it with tar and pitch. She put the baby in it and set it among the papyrus plants near the bank of the Nile River.

Proverbs 1:11

If they say, “Come with us. Let’s set an ambush to kill someone. Let’s hide to ambush innocent people for fun.

Ecclesiastes 2:1

I thought to myself, “Now I want to experiment with pleasure and enjoy myself.” But even this was pointless.

Isaiah 5:5

Now then, let me tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will tear away its hedge so that it can be devoured and tear down its wall so that it can be trampled.

Isaiah 65:3

These people constantly and openly provoked me. They offered sacrifices in gardens and burnt incense on brick altars.

Isaiah 9:10

“Bricks have fallen, but we will rebuild with hand-cut stones. Fig trees have been cut down, but we will replace them with cedars.”

Nahum 3:14

Store water for the siege! Strengthen your defenses! Step into the claypits and trample the clay! Grab the brick mold!

Hebrews 10:24

We must also consider how to encourage each other to show love and to do good things.

Hebrews 3:13

Encourage each other every day while you have the opportunity. If you do this, none of you will be deceived by sin and become stubborn.

James 4:13

Pay attention to this! You’re saying, “Today or tomorrow we will go into some city, stay there a year, conduct business, and make money.”

James 5:1

Pay attention to this if you’re rich. Cry and moan about the misery that is coming to you.