Genesis 11:3
and they each say to his neighbor, “Give help, let us make bricks, and burn [them] thoroughly”: and the brick is to them for stone, and the bitumen has been to them for mortar.
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Genesis 11:7Give help, let us go down there and confuse their language, so that a man will not understand the language of his companion.”
Exodus 1:14and 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 rigor.
Exodus 5:7“You do not add to give straw to the people for the making of the bricks as before—they go and have gathered straw for themselves;
Psalms 64:5They strengthen an evil thing for themselves, || They recount of the hiding of snares, || They have said, “Who looks at it?”
Ecclesiastes 2:1I said in my heart, “Pray, come, I try you with mirth, and look on gladness”; and behold, even it [is] vanity.
Isaiah 9:10“Bricks have fallen, and we build hewn work, || Sycamores have been cut down, and we renew 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 →