Genesis 11:3

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

Then they said to each other, “Let’s make some bricks of clay and bake them in the fire.” Then they used these bricks as stones, and they used tar as mortar.

Cross References

Genesis 14:10

There were many holes filled with tar in the Valley of Siddim. When the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah and their armies ran away, some of the soldiers fell into these holes, but the others ran away to the mountains.

Exodus 2:3

She hid him for as long as she could. After three months she made a basket and covered it with tar so that it would float. Then she put the baby in the basket and put the basket in the river in the tall grass.

Exodus 1:14

They made life hard for the Israelites. They forced the Israelites to work hard at making bricks and mortar and to work hard in the fields. The Egyptians showed no mercy in all the hard work they made the Israelites do!

James 5:1

You rich people, listen! Cry and be very sad because much trouble will come to you.

Hebrews 10:24

We should think about each other to see how we can encourage each other to show love and do good works.

Hebrews 3:13

But encourage each other every day, while you still have something called “today.” Help each other so that none of you will be fooled by sin and become too hard to change.

Isaiah 9:10

“Yes, those bricks fell, but we will rebuild with strong stone. Yes, those little trees were chopped down, but we will plant new trees. And they will be large, strong trees.”

2 Samuel 12:31

David also brought out the people of the city of Rabbah and made them work with saws, iron picks, and axes. He also forced them to build things with bricks. He did the same thing to all the Ammonite cities. Then David and the army went back to Jerusalem.

James 4:13

Some of you say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to some city. We will stay there a year, do business, and make money.” Listen, think about this:

Nahum 3:14

Get water and store it inside your city, because the enemy soldiers will surround your city. Make your defenses strong! Get clay to make more bricks and mix the mortar. Get the molds for making bricks.

Isaiah 65:3

They keep doing things, right in front of me, that make me angry. They offer sacrifices and burn incense in their special gardens.

Isaiah 5:5

“Now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will pull up the thornbushes that protect it, and I will burn them. I will break down the stone wall and use the stones for a walkway.

Ecclesiastes 2:1

I said to myself, “I should have fun—I should enjoy everything as much as I can.” But I learned that this is also useless.

Proverbs 1:11

They will say, “Come with us. Let’s hide and beat to death anyone who happens to walk by.

Psalm 64:5

They encourage each other to do wrong. They talk about setting traps and say, “No one will see them here!

Genesis 11:7

Let’s go down and confuse their language. Then they will not understand each other.”

Genesis 11:4

Then the people said, “Let’s build ourselves a city and a tower that will reach to the sky. Then we will be famous. This will keep us together so that we will not be scattered all over the earth.”