Genesis 11:3

New American Standard Bible 2020

Then they said to one another, “Come, let’s make bricks and fire them thoroughly.” And they used brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.

Cross References

Genesis 11:4

And they said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top will reach into heaven, and let’s make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered abroad over the face of all the earth.”

Genesis 11:7

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

Genesis 14:10

Now the Valley of Siddim was full of tar pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and they fell into them. But those who survived fled to the hill country.

2 Samuel 12:31

He also brought out the people who were in it, and put some to work at saws, iron picks, and iron axes, and made others serve at the brick works. And he did the same to all the cities of the sons of Ammon. Then David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.

Psalm 64:5

They make firm for themselves an evil purpose; They talk of setting snares secretly; They say, “Who can see them?”

Exodus 1:14

and they made their lives bitter with hard labor in mortar and bricks and at all kinds of labor in the field, all their labors which they violently had them perform as slaves.

Exodus 2:3

But when she could no longer hide him, she got him a papyrus basket and covered it with tar and pitch. Then she put the child in it and set it among the reeds by the bank of the Nile.

Proverbs 1:11

If they say, “Come with us, Let’s lie in wait for blood, Let’s ambush the innocent without cause;

Ecclesiastes 2:1

I said to myself, “Come now, I will test you with pleasure. So enjoy yourself.” And behold, it too was futility.

Isaiah 5:5

“So now let Me tell you what I am going to do to My vineyard: I will remove its hedge and it will be consumed; I will break down its wall and it will become trampled ground.

Isaiah 65:3

A people who continually provoke Me to My face, Offering sacrifices in gardens and burning incense on bricks;

Isaiah 9:10

“The bricks have fallen down, But we will rebuild with smooth stones; The sycamores have been cut down, But we will replace them with cedars.”

Nahum 3:14

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

Hebrews 10:24

and let’s consider how to encourage one another in love and good deeds,

Hebrews 3:13

But encourage one another every day, as long as it is still called “today,” so that none of you will be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

James 4:13

Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, and spend a year there and engage in business and make a profit.”

James 5:1

Come now, you rich people, weep and howl for your miseries which are coming upon you.