Genesis 11:3
They said to one another, “Come on, let's make some bricks and bake them with fire.” (They used brick instead of stone, and tar instead of cement).
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2As they moved east they discovered a plain in the land of Shinar so they settled there.
Cross References
Genesis 11:7We need to go down and mix up their language and make it confused so they won't be able to understand what they're saying to one other.”
Exodus 1:14making their lives a misery. They made them do hard labor, building with mortar and brick, and all kinds of heavy work in the fields. In all of this hard labor they treated them brutally.
Exodus 5:7“Don't give them any more straw to make bricks like before. Have them go and collect the straw themselves.
Psalms 64:5They encourage one another to do evil, planning how to secretly trap people, telling themselves, “Nobody will notice.”
Ecclesiastes 2:1So then I thought to myself, “Alright, let me examine pleasure and see how good that is.” But this too turned out to be something temporary that passes.
Isaiah 9:10“The brick buildings have collapsed, but we will rebuild them with dressed stone; the sycamore fig trees have been cut down, but we will replace them with 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 →