Genesis 11:3

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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.)

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  • Gen 14:10 : 10 Now the Valley of Siddim was full of tar pits. When the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, they fell into them, but some survivors fled to the hills.
  • Exod 1:14 : 14 They made their lives bitter by hard service with mortar and bricks and by all kinds of service in the fields. Every kind of service the Israelites were required to give was rigorous.
  • Exod 2:3 : 3 But when she was no longer able to hide him, she took a papyrus basket for him and sealed it with bitumen and pitch. She put the child in it and set it among the reeds along the edge of the Nile.
  • Exod 5:7-9 : 7 “You must no longer give straw to the people for making bricks as before. Let them go and collect straw for themselves. 8 But you must require of them the same quota of bricks that they were making before. Do not reduce it, for they are slackers. That is why they are crying,‘Let us go sacrifice to our God.’ 9 Make the work harder for the men so they will keep at it and pay no attention to lying words!” 10 So the slave masters of the people and their foremen went to the Israelites and said,“Thus says Pharaoh:‘I am not giving you straw. 11 You go get straw for yourselves wherever you can find it, because there will be no reduction at all in your workload.’” 12 So the people spread out through all the land of Egypt to collect stubble for straw. 13 The slave masters were pressuring them, saying,“Complete your work for each day, just like when there was straw!” 14 The Israelite foremen whom Pharaoh’s slave masters had set over them were beaten and were asked,“Why did you not complete your requirement for brickmaking as in the past– both yesterday and today?” 15 The Israelite foremen went and cried out to Pharaoh,“Why are you treating your servants this way? 16 No straw is given to your servants, but we are told,‘Make bricks!’ Your servants are even being beaten, but the fault is with your people.” 17 But Pharaoh replied,“You are slackers! Slackers! That is why you are saying,‘Let us go sacrifice to the LORD.’” 18 So now, get back to work! You will not be given straw, but you must still produce your quota of bricks!”
  • 2 Sam 12:31 : 31 He removed the people who were in it and made them labor with saws, iron picks, and iron axes, putting them to work at the brick kiln. This was his policy with all the Ammonite cities. Then David and all the army returned to Jerusalem.
  • Ps 64:5 : 5 They encourage one another to carry out their evil deed. They plan how to hide snares, and boast,“Who will see them?”
  • Prov 1:11 : 11 If they say,“Come with us! We will lie in wait to shed blood; we will ambush an innocent person capriciously.
  • Eccl 2:1 : 1 Futility of Self-Indulgent Pleasure I thought to myself,“Come now, I will try self-indulgent pleasure to see if it is worthwhile.” But I found that it also is futile.
  • Isa 5:5 : 5 Now I will inform you what I am about to do to my vineyard: I will remove its hedge and turn it into pasture, I will break its wall and allow animals to graze there.
  • Isa 9:10 : 10 “The bricks have fallen, but we will rebuild with chiseled stone; the sycamore fig trees have been cut down, but we will replace them with cedars.”
  • Isa 41:6-7 : 6 They help one another; one says to the other,‘Be strong!’ 7 The craftsman encourages the metalsmith, the one who wields the hammer encourages the one who pounds on the anvil. He approves the quality of the welding, and nails it down so it won’t fall over.”
  • Isa 65:3 : 3 These people continually and blatantly offend me as they sacrifice in their sacred orchards and burn incense on brick altars.
  • Nah 3:14 : 14 Draw yourselves water for a siege! Strengthen your fortifications! Trample the mud and tread the clay! Make mud bricks to strengthen your walls!
  • Heb 3:13 : 13 But exhort one another each day, as long as it is called“Today,” that none of you may become hardened by sin’s deception.
  • Heb 10:24 : 24 And let us take thought of how to spur one another on to love and good works,
  • Jas 4:13 : 13 Come now, you who say,“Today or tomorrow we will go into this or that town and spend a year there and do business and make a profit.”
  • Jas 5:1 : 1 Warning to the Rich Come now, you rich! Weep and cry aloud over the miseries that are coming on you.
  • Gen 11:4 : 4 Then they said,“Come, let’s build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens so that we may make a name for ourselves. Otherwise we will be scattered across the face of the entire earth.”
  • Gen 11:7 : 7 Come, let’s go down and confuse their language so they won’t be able to understand each other.”

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 11:4-9
    6 verses
    88%

    4Then they said,“Come, let’s build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens so that we may make a name for ourselves. Otherwise we will be scattered across the face of the entire earth.”

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

    6And the LORD said,“If as one people all sharing a common language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be beyond them.

    7Come, let’s go down and confuse their language so they won’t be able to understand each other.”

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

    9That is why its name was called Babel– because there the LORD confused the language of the entire world, and from there the LORD scattered them across the face of the entire earth.

  • Gen 11:1-2
    2 verses
    84%

    1The Dispersion of the Nations at Babel The whole earth had a common language and a common vocabulary.

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

  • Nah 3:14
    72%

    14Draw yourselves water for a siege! Strengthen your fortifications! Trample the mud and tread the clay! Make mud bricks to strengthen your walls!

  • Exod 5:7-9
    3 verses
    71%

    7“You must no longer give straw to the people for making bricks as before. Let them go and collect straw for themselves.

    8But you must require of them the same quota of bricks that they were making before. Do not reduce it, for they are slackers. That is why they are crying,‘Let us go sacrifice to our God.’

    9Make the work harder for the men so they will keep at it and pay no attention to lying words!”

  • Exod 5:18-19
    2 verses
    71%

    18So now, get back to work! You will not be given straw, but you must still produce your quota of bricks!”

    19The Israelite foremen saw that they were in trouble when they were told,“You must not reduce the daily quota of your bricks.”

  • Zech 5:11
    70%

    11He replied,“To build a temple for her in the land of Babylonia. When it is finished, she will be placed there in her own residence.”

  • Ezek 11:3
    69%

    3They say,‘The time is not near to build houses; the city is a cooking pot and we are the meat in it.’

  • Exod 1:14
    68%

    14They made their lives bitter by hard service with mortar and bricks and by all kinds of service in the fields. Every kind of service the Israelites were required to give was rigorous.

  • Exod 1:11
    68%

    11So they put foremen over the Israelites to oppress them with hard labor. As a result they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh.

  • Exod 5:16
    68%

    16No straw is given to your servants, but we are told,‘Make bricks!’ Your servants are even being beaten, but the fault is with your people.”

  • Ezek 13:15
    68%

    15I will vent my rage against the wall, and against those who coated it with whitewash. Then I will say to you,“The wall is no more and those who whitewashed it are no more–

  • Ezek 13:11-12
    2 verses
    68%

    11Tell the ones who coat it with whitewash that it will fall. When there is a deluge of rain, hailstones will fall and a violent wind will break out.

    12When the wall has collapsed, people will ask you,“Where is the whitewash you coated it with?”

  • Ezra 5:4
    67%

    4They also asked them,“What are the names of the men who are building this edifice?”

  • Lev 14:42
    67%

    42They are then to take other stones and replace those stones, and he is to take other plaster and replaster the house.

  • Gen 14:10
    67%

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

  • Luke 17:29
    67%

    29but on the day Lot went out from Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.