Genesis 11:3

New Messianic Version Bible

And they said one to another, come (let us begin!), let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar.

Cross References

Genesis 14:10

And the valley of Siddim (Plains, place of plowing a field) [was full of] clay pits; and the kings of S’dom (burning, denotes penal constrictions around the ankles) and ‘Amora (submersion, Tyrants, bind sheaves, People of Fear) fled, and fell there; and they that remained fled to the mountain.

Exodus 2:3

And when she could no longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child in it; and she laid [it] in the flags by the river’s brink.

Exodus 1:14

And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in mortar, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, [was] with rigour.

James 5:1

Go to now, [you2f] rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon [you].

Hebrews 10:24

And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:

Hebrews 3:13

But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

Isaiah 9:10

The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with cut stones: the sycamores are cut down, but we will change [them into] cedars.

2 Samuel 12:31

And he brought forth the people that [were] in it, and put [them] under saws, and under harrows of iron, and under axes of iron, and made them pass through the brick factory: and thus did he unto all the cities of the children of ‘Amon [Inbred]. So David [beloved] and all the people returned unto Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace].

James 4:13

Go to now, you2f that say, To day or tomorrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain:

Nahum 3:14

Draw yourselfi waters for the siege, fortify youri strong holds: go into clay, and trample the mortar, make strong the brick factory.

Isaiah 65:3

A people that provokes me to anger continually to my face; that sacrifices in gardens, and burns incense upon altars of brick;

Isaiah 5:5

And now go forth; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; [and] break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trampled down:

Ecclesiastes 2:1

I said in my heart, Go to now, I will prove youi with gladness, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also [is] vanity.

Proverbs 1:11

If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause:

Psalm 64:5

They encourage themselves [in] an evil matter: they commune of laying snares secretly; they say, Who shall see them?

Genesis 11:7

Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.

Genesis 11:4

And they said, come (let us begin!), let us build us a city and a tower, whose top [may reach] unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.