Genesis 11:3

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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  • Gen 14:10 : 10 Now the valley of Siddim was full of holes of sticky earth; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah were put to flight and came to their end there, but the rest got away to the mountain.
  • Exod 1:14 : 14 And made their lives bitter with hard work, making building-material and bricks, and doing all sorts of work in the fields under the hardest conditions.
  • Exod 2:3 : 3 And when she was no longer able to keep him secret, she made him a basket out of the stems of water-plants, pasting sticky earth over it to keep the water out; and placing the baby in it she put it among the plants by the edge of the Nile.
  • Exod 5:7-9 : 7 Give these men no more dry stems for their brick-making as you have been doing; let them go and get the material for themselves. 8 But see that they make the same number of bricks as before, and no less: for they have no love for work; and so they are crying out and saying, Let us go and make an offering to our God. 9 Give the men harder work, and see that they do it; let them not give attention to false words. 10 And the overseers of the people and their responsible men went out and said to the people, Pharaoh says, I will give you no more dry stems. 11 Go yourselves and get dry stems wherever you are able; for your work is not to be any less. 12 So the people were sent in all directions through the land of Egypt to get dry grass for stems. 13 And the overseers went on driving them and saying, Do your full day's work as before when there were dry stems for you. 14 And the responsible men of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh's overseers had put over them, were given blows, and they said to them, Why have you not done your regular work, in making bricks as before? 15 Then the responsible men of the children of Israel came to Pharaoh, protesting and saying, Why are you acting in this way to your servants? 16 They give us no dry stems and they say to us, Make bricks: and they give your servants blows; but it is your people who are in the wrong. 17 But he said, You have no love for work: that is why you say, Let us go and make an offering to the Lord. 18 Go now, get back to your work; no dry stems will be given to you, but you are to make the full number of bricks.
  • 2 Sam 12:31 : 31 And he took the people out of the town and put them to work with wood-cutting instruments, and iron grain-crushers, and iron axes, and at brick-making: this he did to all the towns of the children of Ammon. Then David and all the people went back to Jerusalem.
  • Ps 64:5 : 5 They make themselves strong in an evil purpose; they make holes for secret nets; they say, Who will see it,
  • Prov 1:11 : 11 If they say, Come with us; let us make designs against the good, waiting secretly for the upright, without cause;
  • Eccl 2:1 : 1 I said in my heart, I will give you joy for a test; so take your pleasure--but it was to no purpose.
  • Isa 5:5 : 5 And now, this is what I will do to my vine-garden: I will take away the circle of thorns round it, and it will be burned up; its wall will be broken down and the beasts of the field will go through it;
  • Isa 9:10 : 10 The bricks have come down, but we will put up buildings of cut stone in their place: the sycamores are cut down, but they will be changed to cedars.
  • Isa 41:6-7 : 6 They gave help everyone to his neighbour; and everyone said to his brother, Take heart! 7 So the metal-worker put heart into the gold-worker, and he who was hammering the metal smooth said kind words to the iron-worker, saying of the plate, It is ready: and he put it together with nails, so that there might be no slipping.
  • Isa 65:3 : 3 A people who make me angry every day, making offerings in gardens, and burning perfumes on bricks.
  • Nah 3:14 : 14 Get water for the time when you are shut in, make strong your towns: go into the potter's earth, stamping it down with your feet, make strong the brickworks.
  • Heb 3:13 : 13 But give comfort to one another every day as long as it is still Today; so that no one among you may be made hard by the deceit of sin:
  • Heb 10:24 : 24 And let us be moving one another at all times to love and good works;
  • Jas 4:13 : 13 How foolish it is to say, Today or tomorrow we will go into this town, and be there for a year and do business there and get wealth:
  • Jas 5:1 : 1 Come now, you men of wealth, give yourselves to weeping and crying because of the bitter troubles which are coming to you.
  • Gen 11:4 : 4 And they said, Come, let us make a town, and a tower whose top will go up as high as heaven; and let us make a great name for ourselves, so that we may not be wanderers over the face of the earth.
  • Gen 11:7 : 7 Come, let us go down and take away the sense of their language, so that they will not be able to make themselves clear to one another.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 11:4-9
    6 verses
    88%

    4 And they said, Come, let us make a town, and a tower whose top will go up as high as heaven; and let us make a great name for ourselves, so that we may not be wanderers over the face of the earth.

    5 And the Lord came down to see the town and the tower which the children of men were building.

    6 And the Lord said, See, they are all one people and have all one language; and this is only the start of what they may do: and now it will not be possible to keep them from any purpose of theirs.

    7 Come, let us go down and take away the sense of their language, so that they will not be able to make themselves clear to one another.

    8 So the Lord God sent them away into every part of the earth: and they gave up building their town.

    9 So it was named Babel, because there the Lord took away the sense of all languages and from there the Lord sent them away over all the face of the earth.

  • Gen 11:1-2
    2 verses
    84%

    1 And all the earth had one language and one tongue.

    2 And it came about that in their wandering from the east, they came to a stretch of flat country in the land of Shinar, and there they made their living-place.

  • Nah 3:14
    72%

    14 Get water for the time when you are shut in, make strong your towns: go into the potter's earth, stamping it down with your feet, make strong the brickworks.

  • Exod 5:7-9
    3 verses
    71%

    7 Give these men no more dry stems for their brick-making as you have been doing; let them go and get the material for themselves.

    8 But see that they make the same number of bricks as before, and no less: for they have no love for work; and so they are crying out and saying, Let us go and make an offering to our God.

    9 Give the men harder work, and see that they do it; let them not give attention to false words.

  • Exod 5:18-19
    2 verses
    71%

    18 Go now, get back to your work; no dry stems will be given to you, but you are to make the full number of bricks.

    19 Then the responsible men of the children of Israel saw that they were purposing evil when they said, The number of bricks which you have to make every day will be no less than before.

  • Zech 5:11
    70%

    11 And he said to me, To make a house for her in the land of Shinar: and they will make a place ready, and put her there in the place which is hers.

  • Ezek 11:3
    69%

    3 Who say, This is not the time for building houses: this town is the cooking-pot and we are the flesh.

  • Exod 1:14
    68%

    14 And made their lives bitter with hard work, making building-material and bricks, and doing all sorts of work in the fields under the hardest conditions.

  • Exod 1:11
    68%

    11 So they put overseers of forced work over them, in order to make their strength less by the weight of their work. And they made store-towns for Pharaoh, Pithom and Raamses.

  • Exod 5:16
    68%

    16 They give us no dry stems and they say to us, Make bricks: and they give your servants blows; but it is your people who are in the wrong.

  • Ezek 13:15
    68%

    15 So I will let loose my passion on the wall in full measure, and on those who put whitewash on it; and I will say to you, Where is the wall, and where are those who put whitewash on it?

  • Ezek 13:11-12
    2 verses
    68%

    11 Say to those who put whitewash on it, There will be an overflowing shower; and you, O ice-drops, will come raining down; and it will be broken in two by the storm-wind.

    12 And when the wall has come down, will they not say to you, Where is the whitewash which you put on it?

  • Ezra 5:4
    67%

    4 Then they said these words to them: What are the names of the men who are at work on this building?

  • Lev 14:42
    67%

    42 And they will take other stones and put them in place of those stones, and he will take other paste and put it on the walls of the house.

  • Gen 14:10
    67%

    10 Now the valley of Siddim was full of holes of sticky earth; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah were put to flight and came to their end there, but the rest got away to the mountain.

  • Luke 17:29
    67%

    29 But on the day when Lot went out of Sodom, fire came down from heaven and destruction came on them all.