Genesis 11:3

New Century Version

They said to each other, “Let’s make bricks and bake them to make them hard.” So they used bricks instead of stones, and tar instead of mortar.

Cross References

Genesis 11:4

Then they said to each other, “Let’s build a city and a tower for ourselves, whose top will reach high into the sky. We will become famous. Then we will not be scattered over all the earth.”

Genesis 11:7

Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not be able to understand each other.”

Genesis 14:10

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

2 Samuel 12:31

He also brought out the people of the city and forced them to work with saws, iron picks, and axes. He also made them build with bricks. David did this to all the Ammonite cities. Then David and all his army returned to Jerusalem.

Psalm 64:5

They encourage each other to do wrong. They talk about setting traps, thinking no one will see them.

Exodus 1:14

They made their lives bitter. They forced the Israelites to work hard to make bricks and mortar and to do all kinds of work in the fields. The Egyptians were not merciful to them in all their painful work.

Exodus 2:3

But after three months she was not able to hide the baby any longer, so she got a basket made of reeds and covered it with tar so that it would float. She put the baby in the basket. Then she put the basket among the tall stalks of grass at the edge of the Nile River.

Proverbs 1:11

They will say, “Come with us. Let’s ambush and kill someone; let’s attack some innocent people just for fun.

Isaiah 5:5

Now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will remove the hedge, and it will be burned. I will break down the stone wall, and it will be walked on.

Isaiah 65:3

Right in front of me they continue to do things that make me angry. They offer sacrifices to their gods in their gardens, and they burn incense on altars of brick.

Isaiah 9:10

“These bricks have fallen, but we will build again with cut stones. These small trees have been chopped down, but we will put great cedars there.”

Nahum 3:14

Get enough water before the long war begins. Make your defenses strong! Get mud, mix clay, make bricks!

Hebrews 10:24

Let us think about each other and help each other to show love and do good deeds.

Hebrews 3:13

But encourage each other every day while it is “today.” Help each other so none of you will become hardened because sin has tricked you.

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.”

James 5:1

You rich people, listen! Cry and be very sad because of the troubles that are coming to you.