KJV 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.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Genesis 11:3
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.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” So they used brick instead of stone, and tar instead of mortar.
WEB 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.
ASV 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.
YLT Young’s 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.
Surrounding context — Genesis 11
1 And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.
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 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.
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.
5 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
6 And the LORD said, Behold, the people [is] one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
וַיֹּאמְר֞וּH559 · a.marto sayאִ֣ישׁH376 · ishmanאֶל־H413 · elto(wards)רֵעֵ֗הוּH7453 · re.aneighborהָ֚בָהH3051 · ya.havto giveנִלְבְּנָ֣הH3835 · la.vento whitenלְבֵנִ֔יםH3843 · le.ve.nahbrickוְנִשְׂרְפָ֖הH8313 · sa.raphto burnלִשְׂרֵפָ֑הH8316 · se.re.phahfireוַתְּהִ֨יH1961 · ha.yahto beלָהֶ֤םH9038 · hemthemהַלְּבֵנָה֙H3843 · le.ve.nahbrickלְאָ֔בֶןH68 · e.venstoneוְהַ֣חֵמָ֔רH2564 · che.marbitumenהָיָ֥הH1961 · ha.yahto beלָהֶ֖םH9038 · hemthemלַחֹֽמֶר׃H2563 · cho.merclay
Cross-references
Genesis 14:10And the vale of Siddim [was full of] slimepits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there; and they that remained fled to the mountain.Exodus 1:14And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, [was] with rigour.Exodus 2:3And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid [it] in the flags by the river’s brink.James 5:1Go to now, [ye] rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon [you].Hebrews 10:24And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:Isaiah 9:10The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change [them into] cedars.Hebrews 3:13But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.Isaiah 41:6-7They helped every one his neighbour; and [every one] said to his brother, Be of good courage.2 Samuel 12:31And 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 children of Ammon. So David and all the people returned unto Jerusalem.Genesis 11:4And 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.Ecclesiastes 2:1I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also [is] vanity.Genesis 11:7Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.Isaiah 5:5And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; [and] break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:Psalm 64:5They encourage themselves [in] an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them?Proverbs 1:11If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:Isaiah 65:3A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face; that sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars of brick;Exodus 5:7-18Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for themselves.James 4:13Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain:
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