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So they had bricks to build with and tar to hold them together. </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/genesis/11-3.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/genesis/11-3.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/genesis/11-3.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/genesis/1.htm">Genesis</a> > <a href="/gntd/genesis/11.htm">Chapter 11</a> > Verse 3</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../genesis/11-2.htm" title="Genesis 11:2">◄</a> Genesis 11:3 <a href="../genesis/11-4.htm" title="Genesis 11:4">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/genesis/11.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/genesis/11.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />They said to one another, "Come on! Let's make bricks and bake them hard." So they had bricks to build with and tar to hold them together. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/genesis/11.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” And they had brick for stone, and bitumen for mortar.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/genesis/11.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />They said to one another, “Come, let us mold bricks and harden them with fire.” They used bricks for stone, and bitumen for mortar.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/genesis/11.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />And each one said to his neighbour: Come let us make brick, and bake them with fire. And they had brick instead of stones, and slime instead of mortar:<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">And each one said to his neighbour: Come let us make brick, and bake them with fire. And they had brick instead of stones, and slime instead of mortar:</p><p class="hdg">they said one to another.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../genesis/11-4.htm">Genesis 11:4,7</a> And they said: Come, let us make a city and a tower, the top whereof may reach to heaven; and let us make our name famous before we be scattered abroad into all lands. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/64-5.htm">Psalm 64:5</a> They will shoot at him on a sudden, and will not fear: they are resolute in wickedness. They have talked of hiding snares; they have said: Who shall see them?</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../proverbs/1-11.htm">Proverbs 1:11</a> Let us swallow him up alive like hell, and whole as one that goeth down into the pit.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../ecclesiastes/2-1.htm">Ecclesiastes 2:1</a> I said in my heart: I will go, and abound with delights, and enjoy good things. And I saw that this also was vanity.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/5-5.htm">Isaiah 5:5</a> And now I will shew you what I will do to my vineyard. I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be wasted: I will break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/41-6.htm">Isaiah 41:6,7</a> Every one shall help his neighbour, and shall say to his brother: Be of good courage. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../james/4-13.htm">James 4:13</a> But who art thou that judgest thy neighbour? Behold, now you that say: To-day or to-morrow we will go into such a city, and there we will spend a year and will traffic and make our gain.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../james/5-1.htm">James 5:1</a> Go to now, ye rich men: weep and howl in your miseries, which shall come upon you.</p><p class="hdg">not as.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../hebrews/3-13.htm">Hebrews 3:13</a> But exhort one another every day, whilst it is called to day, that none of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../hebrews/10-24.htm">Hebrews 10:24</a> And let us consider one another, to provoke unto charity and to good works:</p><p class="hdg">burn throughly.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../exodus/1-14.htm">Exodus 1:14</a> And they made their life bitter with hard works in clay and brick, and with all manner of service, wherewith they were overcharged in the works of the earth.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../exodus/5-7.htm">Exodus 5:7-18</a> You shall give straw no more to the people to make brick, as before; but let them go and gather straw. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_samuel/12-31.htm">2 Samuel 12:31</a> And bringing forth the people thereof he sawed them, and drove over them chariots armed with iron: and divided them with knives, and made them pass through brickkilns: so did he to all the cities of the children of Ammon: and David returned, with all the army to Jerusalem.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/9-10.htm">Isaiah 9:10</a> The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with square stones: they have cut down the sycamores, but we will change them for cedars.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/65-3.htm">Isaiah 65:3</a> A people that continually provoke me to anger before my face, that immolate in gardens, and sacrifice upon bricks.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../nahum/3-14.htm">Nahum 3:14</a> Draw thee water for the siege, build up thy bulwarks: go into the clay, and tread, work it and make brick.</p><p class="hdg">slime.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../genesis/14-10.htm">Genesis 14:10</a> Now the woodland vale had many pits of slime. And the king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrha turned their backs, and were overthrown there: and they that remained, fled to the mountain.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../exodus/2-3.htm">Exodus 2:3</a> And when she could hide him no longer, she took a basket made of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and pitch: and put the little babe therein, and laid him in the sedges by the river's brink,</p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/genesis/11.htm">The Tower of Babel</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">2</span>And when they removed from the east, they found a plain in the land of Sennaar, and dwelt in it. <span class="reftext">3</span><span class="highl">And each one said to his neighbour: Come let us make brick, and bake them with fire. And they had brick instead of stones, and slime instead of mortar:</span><span class="reftext">4</span>And they said: Come, let us make a city and a tower, the top whereof may reach to heaven; and let us make our name famous before we be scattered abroad into all lands.…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../genesis/14-10.htm">Genesis 14:10</a></span><br />Now the woodland vale had many pits of slime. And the king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrha turned their backs, and were overthrown there: and they that remained, fled to the mountain.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../exodus/1-14.htm">Exodus 1:14</a></span><br />And they made their life bitter with hard works in clay and brick, and with all manner of service, wherewith they were overcharged in the works of the earth.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../exodus/2-3.htm">Exodus 2:3</a></span><br />And when she could hide him no longer, she took a basket made of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and pitch: and put the little babe therein, and laid him in the sedges by the river's brink,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../exodus/5-14.htm">Exodus 5:14</a></span><br />And they that were over the works of the children of Israel, were scourged by Pharao's taskmasters, saying: Why have you not made up the task of bricks, both yesterday and to day, as before?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><div class="vheading2">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/ezekiel/46-20.htm">Bake</a> <a href="/exodus/2-3.htm">Bitumen</a> <a href="/nahum/3-14.htm">Brick</a> <a href="/isaiah/65-3.htm">Bricks</a> <a href="/revelation/18-13.htm">Burn</a> <a href="/revelation/21-8.htm">Burning</a> <a href="/genesis/11-1.htm">Earth</a> <a href="/genesis/4-25.htm">Instead</a> <a href="/genesis/4-8.htm">Let's</a> <a href="/zephaniah/1-11.htm">Mortar</a> <a href="/james/4-12.htm">Neighbour</a> <a href="/genesis/9-23.htm">Putting</a> <a href="/psalms/58-8.htm">Slime</a> <a href="/psalms/69-14.htm">Sticky</a> <a href="/genesis/2-12.htm">Stone</a> <a href="/exodus/2-3.htm">Tar</a> <a href="/jude/1-22.htm">Thoroughly</a> <a href="/genesis/8-18.htm">Together</a> <a href="/genesis/11-1.htm">Used</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/genesis/18-6.htm">Bake</a> <a href="/genesis/14-10.htm">Bitumen</a> <a href="/exodus/1-14.htm">Brick</a> <a href="/exodus/1-14.htm">Bricks</a> <a href="/genesis/44-18.htm">Burn</a> <a href="/genesis/15-17.htm">Burning</a> <a href="/genesis/11-4.htm">Earth</a> <a href="/genesis/22-13.htm">Instead</a> <a href="/genesis/11-4.htm">Let's</a> <a href="/exodus/1-14.htm">Mortar</a> <a href="/exodus/2-13.htm">Neighbour</a> <a href="/genesis/14-15.htm">Putting</a> <a href="/genesis/14-10.htm">Slime</a> <a href="/genesis/14-10.htm">Sticky</a> <a href="/genesis/28-18.htm">Stone</a> <a href="/genesis/14-10.htm">Tar</a> <a href="/exodus/21-19.htm">Thoroughly</a> <a href="/genesis/13-6.htm">Together</a> <a href="/genesis/18-12.htm">Used</a><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/genesis/11-3.htm">Genesis 11:3 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/genesis/11-3.htm">Genesis 11:3 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/genesis/11-3.htm">Genesis 11:3 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/genesis/11-3.htm">Genesis 11:3 NASB</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/genesis/11-3.htm">Genesis 11:3 Bible Apps</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/genesis/11-3.htm">Genesis 11:3 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/genesis/11-3.htm">Genesis 11:3 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/genesis/11-3.htm">Genesis 11:3 French Bible</a><br /><a href="//bibeltext.com/genesis/11-3.htm">Genesis 11:3 German Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Alphabetical: and another bake brick bricks burn Come each for instead let let's make mortar of one other said stone tar them They thoroughly to us used<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="https://biblehub.com/genesis/11-3.htm">OT Law: Genesis 11:3 They said one to another Come let's (Gen. 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