They said, *Come, let's build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let's make ourselves a name, lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth.*
Genesis 11:3 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) They said one to another, *Come, let's make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.* They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And they said one to another, Come, let us make bricks and burn them thoroughly. So they had brick for stone, and slime (bitumen) for mortar. American Standard Version (1901) And they said one to another, Come, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. Common English Bible They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them hard.” They used bricks for stones and asphalt for mortar. Catholic Public Domain Version And each one said to his neighbor, "Come, let us make bricks, and bake them with fire." And they had bricks instead of stones, and pitch instead of mortar. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And each one said to his neighbour: Come, let us make brick, and bake them with fire. And they had brick instead of stones, and slime instead of mortar. |
They said, *Come, let's build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let's make ourselves a name, lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth.*
Come, let's go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.*
Now the valley of Siddim was full of tar pits; and the kings of Sedom and `Amorah fled, and they fell there, and those who remained fled to the hills.
He brought forth the people who were therein, and put them under saws, and under harrows of iron, and under axes of iron, and made them pass through the brick kiln: and thus did he to all the cities of the children of `Ammon. David and all the people returned to Yerushalayim.
They encourage themselves in evil plans. They talk about laying snares secretly. They say, *Who will see them?*
and they made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field, all their service, in which they ruthlessly made them serve.
When she could no longer hide him, she took a papyrus basket for him, and coated it with tar and with kofer. She put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds by the river's bank.
If they say, *Come with us, Let's lay in wait for blood; let's lurk secretly for the innocent without cause;
I said in my heart, *Come now, I will test you with mirth: therefore enjoy pleasure;* and behold, this also was vanity.
Now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will take away its hedge, and it will be eaten up. I will break down its wall of it, and it will be trampled down.
a people who provoke me to my face continually, sacrificing in gardens, and burning incense on bricks;
*The bricks have fallen, but we will build with hewn stone. The sycamore fig trees have been cut down, but we will put cedars in their place.*
Draw water for the siege. Strengthen your fortresses. Go into the clay, and tread the mortar. Make the brick kiln strong.
but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called *today;* lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
Come now, you who say, *Today or tomorrow let's go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit.*
Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you.