Genesis 11:3

New International Version

They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar.

Cross References

Genesis 11:4

Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”

Genesis 11:7

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

Genesis 14:10

Now the Valley of Siddim was full of tar pits, and when the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, some of the men fell into them and the rest fled to the hills.

2 Samuel 12:31

and brought out the people who were there, consigning them to labor with saws and with iron picks and axes, and he made them work at brickmaking. David did this to all the Ammonite towns. Then he and his entire army returned to Jerusalem.

Psalm 64:5

They encourage each other in evil plans, they talk about hiding their snares; they say, “Who will see it?”

Exodus 1:14

They made their lives bitter with harsh labor in brick and mortar and with all kinds of work in the fields; in all their harsh labor the Egyptians worked them ruthlessly.

Exodus 2:3

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

Proverbs 1:11

If they say, “Come along with us; let’s lie in wait for innocent blood, let’s ambush some harmless soul;

Ecclesiastes 2:1

I said to myself, “Come now, I will test you with pleasure to find out what is good.” But that also proved to be meaningless.

Isaiah 5:5

Now I will tell you what I am going to do to my vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it will be destroyed; I will break down its wall, and it will be trampled.

Isaiah 65:3

a people who continually provoke me to my very face, offering sacrifices in gardens and burning incense on altars of brick;

Isaiah 9:10

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

Nahum 3:14

Draw water for the siege, strengthen your defenses! Work the clay, tread the mortar, repair the brickwork!

Hebrews 10:24

And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds,

Hebrews 3:13

But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called “Today,” so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.

James 4:13

Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.”

James 5:1

Now listen, you rich people, weep and wail because of the misery that is coming on you.