They said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city with a tower whose top reaches to the heavens. And let us make a name for ourselves, otherwise we be scattered across the surface of the whole earth.”
Genesis 11:3 - Y'all Version Bible They said to one another, “Come, let us 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 us build ourselves a city with a tower whose top reaches to the heavens. And let us make a name for ourselves, otherwise we be scattered across the surface of the whole earth.”
Come, let us go down and there confuse their language so that they may not understand one another’s speech.”
Now the valley of Siddim was full of tar pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and some fell there. Those who remained fled to the hills.
He brought out the people who were in it, and put them to work under saws, under iron picks, under axes of iron, and made them go to the brick kiln; and he did so to all the cities of the children of Ammon. Then David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.
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 kinds 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 pitch. She put the child in it and set it among the reeds by the bank of the Nile.
If they say, “Come with us. Let’s lie 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.” But this also was emptiness.
Now I will tell y’all what I am going to do to my vineyard. I will remove its hedge, and it will be eaten up. I will break down its wall, 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 cut 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.
And let’s consider how to spur one another toward love and excellent works,
But y’all are to exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called “today”, so that none of y’all may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into this city and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit.”
Come now, wealthy ones, y’all should weep and howl for the miseries that are coming upon y’all.