Genesis 11:3

New American Bible - revised edition

They said to one another, “Come, let us mold bricks and harden them with fire.” They used bricks for stone, and bitumen for mortar.

Cross References

Genesis 11:4

Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the sky, and so make a name for ourselves; otherwise we shall be scattered all over the earth.”

Genesis 11:7

Come, let us go down and there confuse their language, so that no one will understand the speech of another.

Genesis 14:10

Now the Valley of Siddim was full of bitumen pits; and as the king of Sodom and the king of Gomorrah fled, they fell into these, while the rest fled to the mountains.

2 Samuel 12:31

He deported the people of the city and set them to work with saws, iron picks, and iron axes, or put them to work at the brickmold. He dealt thus with all the cities of the Ammonites. Then David and his whole army returned to Jerusalem.

Psalm 64:5

They shoot at the innocent from ambush, they shoot him in a moment and do not fear.

Exodus 1:14

making life bitter for them with hard labor, at mortar and brick and all kinds of field work—cruelly oppressed in all their labor. Command to the Midwives.

Exodus 2:3

But when she could no longer hide him, she took a papyrus basket, daubed it with bitumen and pitch, and putting the child in it, placed it among the reeds on the bank of the Nile.

Proverbs 1:11

do not go if they say, “Come along with us! Let us lie in wait for blood, unprovoked, let us trap the innocent;

Ecclesiastes 2:1

I said in my heart, “Come, now, let me try you with pleasure and the enjoyment of good things.” See, this too was vanity.

Isaiah 5:5

Now, I will let you know what I am going to do to my vineyard: Take away its hedge, give it to grazing, break through its wall, let it be trampled!

Isaiah 65:3

A people who provoke me continually to my face, Offering sacrifices in gardens and burning incense on bricks,

Isaiah 9:10

So the Lord raises up their foes against them and stirs up their enemies to action—

Nahum 3:14

Draw water for the siege, strengthen your fortresses; Go down into the mud and tread the clay, take hold of the brick mold!

Hebrews 10:24

We must consider how to rouse one another to love and good works.

Hebrews 3:13

Encourage yourselves daily while it is still “today,” so that none of you may grow hardened by the deceit of sin.

James 4:13

Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we shall go into such and such a town, spend a year there doing business, and make a profit”—

James 5:1

Come now, you rich, weep and wail over your impending miseries.