Genesis 11:3

Revised Standard Version

And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” And they had brick for stone, and bitumen for mortar.

Cross References

Genesis 11:4

Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.”

Genesis 11:7

Come, let us go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.”

Genesis 14:10

Now the Valley of Siddim was full of bitumen pits; and as the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, some fell into them, and the rest fled to the mountain.

2 Samuel 12:31

And he brought forth the people who were in it, and set them to labor with saws and iron picks and iron axes, and made them toil at the brickkilns; and thus he did to all the cities of the Ammonites. Then David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.

Psalm 64:5

They hold fast to their evil purpose; they talk of laying snares secretly, thinking, “Who can see us?

Exodus 1:14

and made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and brick, and in all kinds of work in the field; in all their work they made them serve with rigor.

Exodus 2:3

And when she could hide him no longer she took for him a basket made of bulrushes, and daubed it with bitumen and pitch; and she put the child in it and placed it among the reeds at the river's brink.

Proverbs 1:11

If they say, “Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, let us wantonly ambush the innocent;

Ecclesiastes 2:1

I said to myself, “Come now, I will make a test of pleasure; enjoy yourself.” But behold, this also was vanity.

Isaiah 5:5

And now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will remove its hedge, and it shall be devoured; I will break down its wall, and it shall be trampled down.

Isaiah 65:3

a people who provoke me to my face continually, sacrificing in gardens and burning incense upon bricks;

Isaiah 9:10

“The bricks have fallen, but we will build with dressed stones; the sycamores have been cut down, but we will put cedars in their place.”

Nahum 3:14

Draw water for the siege, strengthen your forts; go into the clay, tread the mortar, take hold of the brick mold!

Hebrews 10:24

and let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works,

Hebrews 3:13

But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

James 4:13

Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and get gain”;

James 5:1

Come now, you rich, weep and howl for the miseries that are coming upon you.