Genesis 11:3

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

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.

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  • Gen 14:10 : 10 And the valley of Siddim `is' full of bitumen-pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah flee, and fall there, and those left have fled to the mountain.
  • Exod 1:14 : 14 and make their lives bitter in hard service, in clay, and in brick, and in every `kind' of service in the field; all their service in which they have served `is' with rigour.
  • Exod 2:3 : 3 and she hath not been able any more to hide him, and she taketh for him an ark of rushes, and daubeth it with bitumen and with pitch, and putteth the lad in it, and putteth `it' in the weeds by the edge of the River;
  • Exod 5:7-9 : 7 `Ye do not add to give straw to the people for the making of the bricks, as heretofore -- they go and have gathered straw for themselves; 8 and the proper quantity of the bricks which they are making heretofore ye do put on them, ye do not diminish from it, for they are remiss, therefore they are crying, saying, Let us go, let us sacrifice to our God; 9 let the service be heavy on the men, and let them work at it, and not be dazzled by lying words.' 10 And the exactors of the people, and its authorities, go out, and speak unto the people, saying, `Thus said Pharaoh, I do not give you straw, 11 ye -- go ye, take for yourselves straw where ye find `it', for there is nothing of your service diminished.' 12 And the people is scattered over all the land of Egypt, to gather stubble for straw, 13 and the exactors are making haste, saying, `Complete your works, the matter of a day in its day, as when there is straw.' 14 And the authorities of the sons of Israel, whom the exactors of Pharaoh have placed over them, are beaten, saying, `Wherefore have ye not completed your portion in making brick as heretofore, both yesterday and to-day?' 15 And the authorities of the sons of Israel come in and cry unto Pharaoh, saying, `Why dost thou thus to thy servants? 16 Straw is not given to thy servants, and they are saying to us, Make bricks, and lo, thy servants are smitten -- and thy people hath sinned.' 17 And he saith, `Remiss -- ye are remiss, therefore ye are saying, Let us go, let us sacrifice to Jehovah; 18 and now, go, serve; and straw is not given to you, and the measure of bricks ye do give.'
  • 2 Sam 12:31 : 31 and the people who `are' in it he hath brought out, and setteth to the saw, and to cutting instruments of iron, and to axes of iron, and hath caused them to pass over into the brick-kiln; and so he doth to all the cities of the Bene-Ammon; and David turneth back, and all the people, to Jerusalem.
  • Ps 64:5 : 5 They strengthen for themselves an evil thing, They recount of the hiding of snares, They have said, `Who doth look at it?'
  • Prov 1:11 : 11 If they say, `Come with us, we lay wait for blood, We watch secretly for the innocent without cause,
  • Eccl 2:1 : 1 I said in my heart, `Pray, come, I try thee with mirth, and look thou on gladness;' and lo, even it `is' vanity.
  • Isa 5:5 : 5 And now, pray, let me cause you to know, That which I am doing to my vineyard, To turn aside its hedge, And it hath been for consumption, To break down its wall, And it hath been for a treading-place.
  • Isa 9:10 : 10 `Bricks have fallen, and hewn work we build, Sycamores have been cut down, and cedars we renew.'
  • Isa 41:6-7 : 6 Each his neighbour they help, And to his brother he saith, `Be strong.' 7 And strengthen doth an artizan the refiner, A smoother `with' a hammer, Him who is beating `on' an anvil, Saying, `For joining it `is' good,' And he strengtheneth it with nails, it is not moved!
  • Isa 65:3 : 3 The people who are provoking Me to anger, To My face continually, Sacrificing in gardens, and making perfume on the bricks:
  • Nah 3:14 : 14 Waters of a siege draw for thyself, Strengthen thy fortresses, Enter into mire, and tread on clay, Make strong a brick-kiln.
  • Heb 3:13 : 13 but exhort ye one another every day, while the To-day is called, that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of the sin,
  • Heb 10:24 : 24 and may we consider one another to provoke to love and to good works,
  • Jas 4:13 : 13 Go, now, ye who are saying, `To-day and to-morrow we will go on to such a city, and will pass there one year, and traffic, and make gain;'
  • Jas 5:1 : 1 Go, now, ye rich! weep, howling over your miseries that are coming upon `you';
  • Gen 11:4 : 4 And they say, `Give help, let us build for ourselves a city and tower, and its head in the heavens, and make for ourselves a name, lest we be scattered over the face of all the earth.'
  • Gen 11:7 : 7 Give help, let us go down, and mingle there their pronunciation, so that a man doth not understand the pronunciation of his companion.'

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  • Gen 11:4-9
    6 verses
    88%

    4And they say, `Give help, let us build for ourselves a city and tower, and its head in the heavens, and make for ourselves a name, lest we be scattered over the face of all the earth.'

    5And Jehovah cometh down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men have builded;

    6and Jehovah saith, `Lo, the people `is' one, and one pronunciation `is' to them all, and this it hath dreamed of doing; and now, nothing is restrained from them of that which they have purposed to do.

    7Give help, let us go down, and mingle there their pronunciation, so that a man doth not understand the pronunciation of his companion.'

    8And Jehovah doth scatter them from thence over the face of all the earth, and they cease to build the city;

    9therefore hath `one' called its name Babel, for there hath Jehovah mingled the pronunciation of all the earth, and from thence hath Jehovah scattered them over the face of all the earth.

  • Gen 11:1-2
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    1And the whole earth is of one pronunciation, and of the same words,

    2and it cometh to pass, in their journeying from the east, that they find a valley in the land of Shinar, and dwell there;

  • Nah 3:14
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    14Waters of a siege draw for thyself, Strengthen thy fortresses, Enter into mire, and tread on clay, Make strong a brick-kiln.

  • Exod 5:7-9
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    7`Ye do not add to give straw to the people for the making of the bricks, as heretofore -- they go and have gathered straw for themselves;

    8and the proper quantity of the bricks which they are making heretofore ye do put on them, ye do not diminish from it, for they are remiss, therefore they are crying, saying, Let us go, let us sacrifice to our God;

    9let the service be heavy on the men, and let them work at it, and not be dazzled by lying words.'

  • Exod 5:18-19
    2 verses
    71%

    18and now, go, serve; and straw is not given to you, and the measure of bricks ye do give.'

    19And the authorities of the sons of Israel see them in affliction, saying, `Ye do not diminish from your bricks; the matter of a day in its day.'

  • Zech 5:11
    70%

    11And he saith unto me, `To build to it a house in the land of Shinar.' And it hath been prepared and hath been placed there on its base.

  • Ezek 11:3
    69%

    3who are saying, It `is' not near -- to build houses, it `is' the pot, and we the flesh.

  • Exod 1:14
    68%

    14and make their lives bitter in hard service, in clay, and in brick, and in every `kind' of service in the field; all their service in which they have served `is' with rigour.

  • Exod 1:11
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    11And they set over it princes of tribute, so as to afflict it with their burdens, and it buildeth store-cities for Pharaoh, Pithom and Raamses;

  • Exod 5:16
    68%

    16Straw is not given to thy servants, and they are saying to us, Make bricks, and lo, thy servants are smitten -- and thy people hath sinned.'

  • Ezek 13:15
    68%

    15And I have completed My wrath on the wall, And on those daubing it with chalk, And I say to you: The wall is not, And those daubing it are not;

  • Ezek 13:11-12
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    68%

    11Say to those daubing with chalk -- It falleth, There hath been an overflowing shower, And ye, O hailstones, do fall, And a tempestuous wind doth rend,

    12And lo, fallen hath the wall! Doth not one say unto you, Where `is' the daubing that ye daubed?

  • Ezra 5:4
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    4Then thus we have said to them, `What `are' the names of the men who are building this building?'

  • Lev 14:42
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    42and they have taken other stones, and brought `them' in unto the place of the stones, and other clay he taketh and hath daubed the house.

  • Gen 14:10
    67%

    10And the valley of Siddim `is' full of bitumen-pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah flee, and fall there, and those left have fled to the mountain.

  • Luke 17:29
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    29and on the day Lot went forth from Sodom, He rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed all.