Genesis 11:3

New Living Translation

They began saying to each other, “Let’s make bricks and harden them with fire.” (In this region bricks were used instead of stone, and tar was used for mortar.)

Cross References

Genesis 11:4

Then they said, “Come, let’s build a great city for ourselves with a tower that reaches into the sky. This will make us famous and keep us from being scattered all over the world.”

Genesis 11:7

Come, let’s go down and confuse the people with different languages. Then they won’t be able to understand each other.”

Genesis 14:10

As it happened, the valley of the Dead Sea was filled with tar pits. And as the army of the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, some fell into the tar pits, while the rest escaped into the mountains.

2 Samuel 12:31

He also made slaves of the people of Rabbah and forced them to labor with saws, iron picks, and iron axes, and to work in the brick kilns. That is how he dealt with the people of all the Ammonite towns. Then David and all the army returned to Jerusalem.

Psalm 64:5

They encourage each other to do evil and plan how to set their traps in secret. “Who will ever notice?” they ask.

Exodus 1:14

They made their lives bitter, forcing them to mix mortar and make bricks and do all the work in the fields. They were ruthless in all their demands.

Exodus 2:3

But when she could no longer hide him, she got a basket made of papyrus reeds and waterproofed it with tar and pitch. She put the baby in the basket and laid it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile River.

Proverbs 1:11

They may say, “Come and join us. Let’s hide and kill someone! Just for fun, let’s ambush the innocent!

Ecclesiastes 2:1

I said to myself, “Come on, let’s try pleasure. Let’s look for the ‘good things’ in life.” But I found that this, too, was meaningless.

Isaiah 5:5

Now let me tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will tear down its hedges and let it be destroyed. I will break down its walls and let the animals trample it.

Isaiah 65:3

All day long they insult me to my face by worshiping idols in their sacred gardens. They burn incense on pagan altars.

Isaiah 9:10

They said, “We will replace the broken bricks of our ruins with finished stone, and replant the felled sycamore-fig trees with cedars.”

Nahum 3:14

Get ready for the siege! Store up water! Strengthen the defenses! Go into the pits to trample clay, and pack it into molds, making bricks to repair the walls.

Hebrews 10:24

Let us think of ways to motivate one another to acts of love and good works.

Hebrews 3:13

You must warn each other every day, while it is still “today,” so that none of you will be deceived by sin and hardened against God.

James 4:13

Look here, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we are going to a certain town and will stay there a year. We will do business there and make a profit.”

James 5:1

Look here, you rich people: Weep and groan with anguish because of all the terrible troubles ahead of you.