Genesis 11:3
And they said one to another, come, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar.
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Genesis 11:7Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
Exodus 1:14And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in mortar, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service in which they made them serve, was with rigor.
Exodus 5:7Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore; let them go and gather straw for themselves.
Psalms 64:5They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who will see them?
Ecclesiastes 2:1I said in my heart, Come now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and behold, this also is vanity.
Isaiah 9:10The bricks have fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones; the sycamores are cut down, but we will change them into 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 →