Genesis 11:3

New English Translation

Then they said to one another, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” (They had brick instead of stone and tar instead of mortar.)

Cross References

Genesis 11:4

Then they said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens so that we may make a name for ourselves. Otherwise we will be scattered across the face of the entire earth.”

Genesis 11:7

Come, let’s go down and confuse their language so they won’t be able to understand each other.”

Genesis 14:10

Now the Valley of Siddim was full of tar pits. When the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, they fell into them, but some survivors fled to the hills.

2 Samuel 12:31

He removed the people who were in it and made them do hard labor with saws, iron picks, and iron axes, putting them to work at the brick kiln. This was his policy with all the Ammonite cities. Then David and all the army returned to Jerusalem.

Psalm 64:5

They encourage one another to carry out their evil deed. They plan how to hide snares, and boast, “Who will see them?”

Exodus 1:14

They made their lives bitter by hard service with mortar and bricks and by all kinds of service in the fields. Every kind of service the Israelites were required to give was rigorous.

Exodus 2:3

But when she was no longer able to hide him, she took a papyrus basket for him and sealed it with bitumen and pitch. She put the child in it and set it among the reeds along the edge of the Nile.

Proverbs 1:11

If they say, “Come with us! We will lie in wait to shed blood; we will ambush an innocent person capriciously.

Ecclesiastes 2:1

I thought to myself, “Come now, I will try self-indulgent pleasure to see if it is worthwhile.” But I found that it also is futile.

Isaiah 5:5

Now I will inform you what I am about to do to my vineyard: I will remove its hedge and turn it into pasture, I will break its wall and allow animals to graze there.

Isaiah 65:3

These people continually and blatantly offend me as they sacrifice in their sacred orchards and burn incense on brick altars.

Isaiah 9:10

“The bricks have fallen, but we will rebuild with chiseled stone; the sycamore fig trees have been cut down, but we will replace them with cedars.”

Nahum 3:14

Draw yourselves water for a siege! Strengthen your fortifications! Trample the mud and tread the clay! Make mud bricks to strengthen your walls!

Hebrews 10:24

And let us take thought of how to spur one another on to love and good works,

Hebrews 3:13

But exhort one another each day, as long as it is called “Today,” that none of you may become hardened by sin’s deception.

James 4:13

Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into this or that town and spend a year there and do business and make a profit.”

James 5:1

Come now, you rich! Weep and cry aloud over the miseries that are coming on you.