Genesis 11:3

Modern English Version

They said to each other, “Let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” And they had brick for stone and tar for mortar.

Cross References

Genesis 11:4

Then they said, “Come, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top will reach to heaven, and let us make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.”

Genesis 11:7

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

Genesis 14:10

Now the Valley of Siddim was full of tar pits, and as the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, some fell in them, and the rest fled to the hill country.

2 Samuel 12:31

He brought out the people who were in it, and he put them to work with saws, and iron picks, and iron axes, and sent them to work in the brick kiln. Thus he did to all of the cities of the Ammonites. Then David and all of the people returned to Jerusalem.

Psalm 64:5

They encourage themselves in an evil matter; they talk of laying snares secretly; they say, “Who will see them?”

Exodus 1:14

and they made their lives bitter with hard service—in mortar and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field. In all their service they made them serve with rigor.

Exodus 2:3

When she could no longer hide him, she got a papyrus basket for him, and daubed it with tar and pitch. She then put the child in it and set it in the reeds by the river’s bank.

Proverbs 1:11

If they say, “Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause;

Ecclesiastes 2:1

And I said in my heart, “Come, and I will test you with selfish pleasures; enjoy your desires.” And notice that this too is vanity.

Isaiah 5:5

So now I will tell you what I will do to My vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it shall be consumed; I will break down its wall, and it shall be trodden down.

Isaiah 65:3

a people who provoke Me continually to My face, presenting sacrifices in gardens and burning incense on altars of brick;

Isaiah 9:10

“The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones; the sycamores are cut down, but we will replace them with cedars.”

Nahum 3:14

Draw water for the siege! Strengthen your forts! Go into the clay and tread the mortar! Take hold of the brick mold!

Hebrews 10:24

And let us consider how to spur one another to love and to good works.

Hebrews 3:13

But exhort one another daily, while it is called “Today,” lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

James 4:13

Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into this city, spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a profit,”

James 5:1

Come now, you rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.