Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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 dwelt there. 3 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. 4 And they said, Come on, let us build ourselves a city and a tower, the top of which may reach to the heavens; and let us make ourselves a name, lest we be scattered over the face of the whole earth.
Phrases
Cross References
Genesis 14:10
And the vale of Siddim was full of pits of asphalt. And the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there: and they that remained fled to the mountain.
Exodus 1:14
and they embittered their life with hard labour in clay and bricks, and in all manner of labour in the field: all their labour with which they made them serve was with harshness.
Exodus 2:3
And when she could no longer hide him, she took for him an ark of reeds, and plastered it with resin and with pitch, and put the child in it, and laid it in the sedge on the bank of the river.
Genesis 11:4
And they said, Come on, let us build ourselves a city and a tower, the top of which may reach to the heavens; and let us make ourselves a name, lest we be scattered over the face of the whole earth.
Genesis 11:7
Come, 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 more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for themselves.
2 Samuel 12:31
And he brought out the people that were in it, and put them under the saw, and under harrows of iron, and under axes of iron, and made them pass through the brickkilns. And so did he to all the cities of the children of Ammon. And David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.
Psalm 64:5
They encourage themselves in an evil matter, they concert to hide snares; they say, Who will see them?
Proverbs 1:11
If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause;
Ecclesiastes 2:1
I said in my heart, Come now, I will try thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure. But behold, this also is vanity.
Isaiah 5:5
And now, let me tell you what I am about to do to my vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it shall be eaten up; I will break down its wall, and it shall be trodden under foot;
Isaiah 9:10
The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones; the sycamore trees are cut down, but we will replace them with cedars.
Isaiah 41:6-7
They helped every one his neighbour, and each said to his brother, Take courage.
Isaiah 65:3
the people that provoke me to anger continually to my face, sacrificing in gardens and burning incense upon the bricks;
Nahum 3:14
Draw thee water for the siege, strengthen thy fortresses; go into the clay, and tread the mortar, make strong the brick-kiln.
Hebrews 3:13
But encourage yourselves each day, as long as it is called To-day, that none of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
Hebrews 10:24
and let us consider one another for provoking to love and good works;
James 4:13
Go to now, ye who say, To-day or to-morrow will we go into such a city and spend a year there, and traffic and make gain,
James 5:1
Go to now, ye rich, weep, howling over your miseries that are coming upon you.