Genesis 11:3
And each one said to his neighbour: Come, let us make brick, and bake them of stones, and slime instead of mortar.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
2And when they removed from the east, they found a plain in the land of Sennaar, and dwelt in it.
Cross References
Genesis 11:7Come ye, therefore, let us go down, and there may not understand one another's speech.
Exodus 1:14And 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.
Exodus 5:7You shall give straw no more to the people to make brick, as before: but let them go and gather straw.
Psalms 64:5to shoot in secret the undefiled.
Ecclesiastes 2:1I said in my heart: I will go, and abound with delights, and enjoy good things. And I saw that this also was vanity.
Isaiah 9:10The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with square stones: they have cut down the sycamores, but we will change them for cedars.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 11:2-5
The Confusion of Tongues. ( b. c. 2247.) 1 And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. 2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. 3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. 4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered… Read the whole commentary →