Genesis 11:3 - Easy To Read Version

³ The people said, “We should make bricks and put them in fire so that they will become very hard.” So the people used bricks, not stones, to build their houses. And the people used tar, [66] not mortar. [67]

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ 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

³ 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)

³ 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

³ 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

³ 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

³ 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.

Genesis 11:3 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 11:4

Then the people said, “We should build a city for ourselves. And we should build a tower that will reach to the sky. We will be famous. {And this will keep us together.} We will not be scattered all over the earth.”

Genesis 11:7

So let’s go down and confuse their language. Then they will not understand each other.”

Genesis 14:10

There were very many holes filled with tar [82] in the Valley of Siddim. The kings of Sodom and Gomorrah {and their armies} ran away. Many of the soldiers fell into those holes. But the others ran away to the mountains.

2 Samuel 12:31

David also brought out the people of the city Rabbah and made them work with saws, iron picks, and axes. He also forced them to build things with bricks. David did the same thing to all of the Ammonite cities. Then David and all of his army went back to Jerusalem.

Psalm 64:5

They encourage each other to do wrong.\par They talk about setting their traps.\par They tell each other,\par “No one will see the traps!”\par

Exodus 1:14

The Egyptians made life hard for the Israelites. They forced the Israelites to work very hard making bricks and mortar. They also forced them to work hard in the fields. They forced them to work very hard in everything they did.

Exodus 2:3

The mother was afraid that the baby would be found and killed because he was a boy. After three months, she made a basket and covered it with tar [6] so that it would float. She put the baby in the basket. Then she put the basket in the river in the tall grass.

Proverbs 1:11

Those bad people might say, “Come with us! We are going to hide and wait for someone to kill. We will attack some innocent person.

Ecclesiastes 2:1

I said to myself, “I should have fun—I should enjoy everything the most I can.” But I learned that this is also useless.

Isaiah 5:5

Now, I will tell you what I will do to my field of grapes:\par

Isaiah 65:3

Those people are in front of me always making me angry. Those people offer sacrifices {\cf2\super [466]} and burn incense {\cf2\super [467]} in their special gardens. {\cf2\super [468]}

Isaiah 9:10

“These bricks might fall, but we will build again. And we will build with \{strong\} stone. These small trees might be chopped down. But we will put new trees there. And the new trees will be large, strong trees.”

Nahum 3:14

Get water and store it inside your city. Why? Because the enemy soldiers will surround your city. \{They will not let any person bring food or water into the city.\} Make your defenses strong! Get clay to make more bricks! Mix the mortar! Get the molds for making bricks!

Hebrews 10:24

We should think about each other and see how we can help each other to show love and do good things.

Hebrews 3:13

But encourage each other every day. Do this while it is “today. {\cf2\super [19]} ” Help each other so that none of you will become hardened because of sin and the way sin fools people.

James 4:13

Some of you say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to some city. We will stay there a year, do business, and make money.” Listen! Think about this:

James 5:1

You rich people, listen! Cry and be very sad because much trouble will come to you.