Genesis 11:3

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They said to each other, "Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly." They had brick for stone and tar for mortar.

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  • Gen 14:10 : 10 Now the Valley of Siddim was full of tar pits, and as the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, they fell into them, but the rest fled to the hills.
  • Exod 1:14 : 14 They made their lives bitter with harsh labor in brick and mortar and with all kinds of work in the fields; in all their harsh labor, the Egyptians worked them ruthlessly.
  • Exod 2:3 : 3 When she could no longer hide him, she got a papyrus basket, coated it with tar and pitch, placed the child inside, and laid it among the reeds along the riverbank.
  • Exod 5:7-9 : 7 "You are no longer to supply the people with straw for making bricks; let them go and gather their own straw. 8 But require them to make the same number of bricks as before; don't reduce the quota. They are lazy; that is why they are crying out, 'Let us go and offer sacrifices to our God.' 9 Make the work harder for the people so that they keep working and pay no attention to lies." 10 So the slave drivers and overseers went out and said to the people, "This is what Pharaoh says: 'I will not give you any straw.' 11 "Go and get your own straw wherever you can find it, but your work will not be reduced at all." 12 So the people scattered all over Egypt to gather stubble to use for straw. 13 The slave drivers kept pressing them, saying, "Complete the work required of you each day, just as when you had straw." 14 And Pharaoh's slave drivers beat the Israelite overseers they had appointed, demanding, "Why haven’t you met your quota of bricks yesterday or today, as before?" 15 Then the Israelite overseers went and appealed to Pharaoh: "Why are you treating your servants this way?" 16 "No straw is given to your servants, yet we are told, 'Make bricks!' Your servants are being beaten, but the fault is with your own people." 17 Pharaoh said, "Lazy! That’s what you are—lazy! That is why you keep saying, 'Let us go and sacrifice to the Lord.' 18 "Now get to work. You will not be given any straw, yet you must produce your full quota of bricks."
  • 2 Sam 12:31 : 31 He brought out the people who were there, consigning them to labor with saws, iron picks, and axes, and made them work at brickmaking. David did this to all the Ammonite towns. Then he and his entire army returned to Jerusalem.
  • Ps 64:5 : 5 They shoot from hiding places at the innocent; they shoot suddenly, without fear.
  • Prov 1:11 : 11 If they say, 'Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood; let us ambush the innocent without cause;'
  • Eccl 2:1 : 1 I said to myself, 'Come now, I will test you with pleasure to see what is good.' But behold, this too was meaningless.
  • Isa 5:5 : 5 Now let me tell you what I am about to do to my vineyard: I will remove its hedge, and it will be destroyed; I will break down its wall, and it will be trampled.
  • Isa 9:10 : 10 But the LORD has strengthened Rezin’s adversaries against them and has stirred up their enemies.
  • Isa 41:6-7 : 6 Each one helps his neighbor and says to his brother, 'Be strong!' 7 The craftsman encourages the goldsmith, and the one who polishes with the hammer encourages the one striking the anvil, saying of the soldering, 'It is good.' They fasten it with nails so it will not move.
  • Isa 65:3 : 3 These people continually provoke me to my face, offering sacrifices in gardens and burning incense on bricks.
  • Nah 3:14 : 14 Draw water for the siege, strengthen your fortresses. Go into the clay and tread the mortar; take hold of the brick mold.
  • Heb 3:13 : 13 But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called "Today," so that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
  • Heb 10:24 : 24 And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds,
  • Jas 4:13 : 13 Now listen, you who say, 'Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.'
  • Jas 5:1 : 1 Come now, you rich people, weep and wail over the miseries that are coming upon you.
  • Gen 11:4 : 4 Then they said, "Come, let us build a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered over the face of the whole earth."
  • Gen 11:7 : 7 Come, let us go down and confuse their language so that they will not understand one another’s speech.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 11:4-9
    6 verses
    88%

    4Then they said, "Come, let us build a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered over the face of the whole earth."

    5But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the people were building.

    6The LORD said, "Behold, they are one people, and they all have one language; and this is only the beginning of what they will do. Now nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them."

    7Come, let us go down and confuse their language so that they will not understand one another’s speech.

    8So the LORD scattered them from there over the face of the whole earth, and they stopped building the city.

    9That is why it was called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of the whole earth. From there the LORD scattered them over the face of the whole earth.

  • Gen 11:1-2
    2 verses
    84%

    1Now the whole earth had one language and a common speech.

    2As people moved eastward, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.

  • Nah 3:14
    72%

    14Draw water for the siege, strengthen your fortresses. Go into the clay and tread the mortar; take hold of the brick mold.

  • Exod 5:7-9
    3 verses
    71%

    7"You are no longer to supply the people with straw for making bricks; let them go and gather their own straw.

    8But require them to make the same number of bricks as before; don't reduce the quota. They are lazy; that is why they are crying out, 'Let us go and offer sacrifices to our God.'

    9Make the work harder for the people so that they keep working and pay no attention to lies."

  • Exod 5:18-19
    2 verses
    71%

    18"Now get to work. You will not be given any straw, yet you must produce your full quota of bricks."

    19The Israelite overseers realized they were in trouble when they were told, "You are not to reduce the number of bricks required of you each day."

  • Zech 5:11
    70%

    11He replied, 'To the land of Shinar to build a house for it. When it is prepared, it will be set there on its own base.'

  • Ezek 11:3
    69%

    3They say, 'It is not time to build houses; this city is the pot, and we are the meat.'

  • Exod 1:14
    68%

    14They made their lives bitter with harsh labor in brick and mortar and with all kinds of work in the fields; in all their harsh labor, the Egyptians worked them ruthlessly.

  • Exod 1:11
    68%

    11So they appointed taskmasters over them to oppress them with forced labor. They built supply cities for Pharaoh—Pithom and Rameses.

  • Exod 5:16
    68%

    16"No straw is given to your servants, yet we are told, 'Make bricks!' Your servants are being beaten, but the fault is with your own people."

  • Ezek 13:15
    68%

    15So I will pour out my wrath on the wall and on those who plaster it with whitewash. I will tell you, ‘The wall is gone, and so are those who plastered it,’

  • Ezek 13:11-12
    2 verses
    68%

    11say to those who plaster it with whitewash that it will fall. There will be a flooding rain, hailstones will fall, and a stormy wind will break it.

    12When the wall falls, people will ask you, ‘Where is the whitewash you applied?’

  • Ezra 5:4
    67%

    4They also asked, 'What are the names of the men who are constructing this building?'

  • Lev 14:42
    67%

    42Then they shall take other stones to replace those removed and reapply the plaster over the house.

  • Gen 14:10
    67%

    10Now the Valley of Siddim was full of tar pits, and as the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, they fell into them, but the rest fled to the hills.

  • Luke 17:29
    67%

    29But the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.