Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
They said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and burn them thoroughly.” And they used brick for stone, and they used
King James Version
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.
Holman Bible
They said to each other, “Come, let us make oven-fired bricks.” They used brick for stone and asphalt for mortar.
International Standard Version
They told each other, "Come on! Let's burn bricks thoroughly." They used bricks for stone and tar for mortar.
A Conservative Version
And they said one to another, Come, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and they had slime for mortar.
American Standard Version
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.
Amplified
They said one to another, “Come, let us make bricks and fire them thoroughly [in a kiln, to harden and strengthen them].” So they used brick for stone [as building material], and they used tar (bitumen, asphalt) for mortar.
Bible in Basic English
And they said one to another, Come, let us make bricks, burning them well. And they had bricks for stone, putting them together with sticky earth.
Darby Translation
And they said one to another, Come on, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and they had asphalt for mortar.
Julia Smith Translation
And they shall say a man to his neighbor, Come, we will make bricks, and we will burn to a burning, and brick shall be to them for stone, and potter's clay shall be to them for potter's clay.
King James 2000
And they said one to another, Come, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and bitumen had they for mortar.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And they said {to each other}, "Come, let us make bricks and {burn them thoroughly}." And they had brick for stone and they had tar for mortar.
Modern King James verseion
And they said to one another, Come, let us make brick and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and they had asphalt for mortar.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And they said, one to another, "Come on, let us make brick and burn it with fire." So brick was their stone and slime was their mortar.
NET Bible
Then they said to one another, "Come, let's make bricks and bake them thoroughly." (They had brick instead of stone and tar instead of mortar.)
New Heart English Bible
They said one to another, "Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly." They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.
The Emphasized Bible
Then said they, each man to his friend, Come on! let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly, - So the bricks, served them for stone, and bitumen, served them for mortar,
Webster
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.
World English Bible
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.
Youngs Literal Translation
and they say each one to his neighbour, 'Give help, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly:' and the brick is to them for stone, and the bitumen hath been to them for mortar.
Themes
Art » Primitive » Of the brickmaker
Arts and crafts » Names of various » Brick-makers
Babel » A city » Plain » Shinar » Tower » Built
Bitumen » Margin rv, slime » An inflammable mineral
Brick » Used in building: babel
Cities » Built » Of brick and slime
Dispersion » After building the tower of babel
Language » Confusion of » A punishment for presumption, &c
Miracles » Catalogue of » The confusion of languages
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Genesis 11:3
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Tower Of Babylon
2
And it came to pass as they journeyed from the east that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.
3 They said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and burn them thoroughly.” And they used brick for stone, and they used
Phrases
Cross References
Genesis 14:10
And the vale of Siddim was full of slimepits, and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled and fell there; and those that remained fled to the mountain.
Exodus 1:14
and they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, making mortar and brick and in all manner of service in the field; all their service, in which they made them serve, was with rigor.
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 reeds by the river's brink.
Genesis 11:4
And they said, Go to, 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.
Genesis 11:7
Now, let us go down and there confound their language that they may not understand one another's speech.
Exodus 5:7-18
Ye shall no longer give the people firewood to make brick as until now; let them go and gather firewood for themselves.
2 Samuel 12:31
And he brought forth the people that were therein and put them under saws and under harrows of iron and under axes of iron and made them pass through the brickkiln, and thus did he unto all the cities of the sons of Ammon. So David and all the people returned unto Jerusalem.
Psalm 64:5
They encourage themselves in an evil matter; they attempt to hide the snares; they say, Who shall see them?
Proverbs 1:11
If they say, Come with us, let us lay in wait for blood; let us ambush the innocent without cause.
Ecclesiastes 2:1
I said in my heart, Come now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy good things; and, behold, this also is vanity.
Isaiah 5:5
And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it shall be eaten up; and break down its wall, and it shall be trodden down:
Isaiah 9:10
The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones; the wild fig trees are cut down, but we will put cedars in their place.
Isaiah 41:6-7
Each one helped his neighbour; and each one said to his brother, Be of good courage.
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;
Nahum 3:14
Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds: go into clay, and tread the mortar, make strong the brickkiln.
Hebrews 3:13
But exhort one another daily, while it is called Today, lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
Hebrews 10:24
And let us consider one another to provoke unto charity and unto good works,
James 4:13
Come now, ye that say, Today and tomorrow we will go into such a city and continue there a year and buy and sell and get gain;
James 5:1
Come now, Oh ye rich, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.