Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. New Living Translation They began saying to each other, “Let’s make bricks and harden them with fire.” (In this region bricks were used instead of stone, and tar was used for mortar.) English Standard Version 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. Berean Standard Bible And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” So they used brick instead of stone, and tar instead of mortar. King James Bible And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter. New King James Version Then they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They had brick for stone, and they had asphalt for mortar. New American Standard Bible Then they said to one another, “Come, let’s make bricks and fire them thoroughly.” And they used brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar. NASB 1995 They said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and burn them thoroughly.” And they used brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar. NASB 1977 And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and burn them thoroughly.” And they used brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar. Legacy Standard Bible Then they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and burn them thoroughly.” And they had brick for stone, and they had tar for mortar. Amplified Bible They said one to another, “Come, let us make bricks and fire them thoroughly [in a kiln, to harden and strengthen them].” So they used brick for stone [as building material], and they used tar (bitumen, asphalt) for mortar. Christian Standard Bible They said to each other, “Come, let’s make oven-fired bricks.” (They used brick for stone and asphalt for mortar.) Holman Christian Standard Bible They said to each other, “Come, let us make oven-fired bricks.” They used brick for stone and asphalt for mortar. American Standard Version 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. Aramaic Bible in Plain English And they said each man to his neighbor: “Come, we will lay bricks and we will burn them in fire.” And they had brick for stone and they had lime for mortar. Brenton Septuagint Translation And a man said to his neighbour, Come, let us make bricks and bake them with fire. And the brick was to them for stone, and their mortar was bitumen. Douay-Rheims Bible And each one said to his neighbour: Come, let us make brick, and bake them of stones, and slime instead of mortar. English Revised Version And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. GOD'S WORD® Translation They said to one another, "Let's make bricks and bake them thoroughly." They used bricks as stones and tar as mortar. Good News Translation 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. International Standard Version They told each other, "Come on! Let's burn bricks thoroughly." They used bricks for stone and tar for mortar. JPS Tanakh 1917 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. Literal Standard Version 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. Majority Standard Bible And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” So they used brick instead of stone, and tar instead of mortar. New American Bible They said to one another, “Come, let us mold bricks and harden them with fire.” They used bricks for stone, and bitumen for mortar. NET Bible Then they said to one another, "Come, let's make bricks and bake them thoroughly." (They had brick instead of stone and tar instead of mortar.) New Revised Standard Version 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. New Heart English Bible And they said to one another, "Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly." They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar. Webster's Bible Translation 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. World English Bible They said to one another, “Come, let’s make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar. Young's Literal Translation and they say each one to his neighbour, 'Give help, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly:' and the brick is to them for stone, and the bitumen hath been to them for mortar. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context The Tower of Babel…2And as people journeyed eastward, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. 3And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” So they used brick instead of stone, and tar instead of mortar. 4“Come,” they said, “let us build for ourselves a city with a tower that reaches to the heavens, that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of all the earth.”… Cross References Genesis 14:10 Now the Valley of Siddim was full of tar pits, and as the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, some men fell into the pits, but the survivors fled to the hill country. Exodus 1:14 and made their lives bitter with hard labor in brick and mortar, and with all kinds of work in the fields. Every service they imposed was harsh. Exodus 2:3 But when she could no longer hide him, she got him a papyrus basket and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in the basket and set it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile. Exodus 5:14 Then the Israelite foremen, whom Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over the people, were beaten and asked, "Why have you not fulfilled your quota of bricks yesterday or today, as you did before?" Treasury of Scripture 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. they said one to another. Genesis 11:4,7 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 abroad upon the face of the whole earth… Psalm 64:5 They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them? Proverbs 1:11 If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause: not as. Hebrews 3:13 But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. Hebrews 10:24 And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: burn throughly. Exodus 1:14 And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour. Exodus 5:7-18 Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for themselves… 2 Samuel 12:31 And he brought forth the people that were therein, and put them under saws, and under harrows of iron, and under axes of iron, and made them pass through the brickkiln: and thus did he unto all the cities of the children of Ammon. So David and all the people returned unto Jerusalem. slime. Genesis 14:10 And the vale of Siddim was full of slimepits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there; and they that remained fled to the mountain. Exodus 2:3 And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink. Jump to Previous Bake Bitumen Brick Bricks Burn Burning Earth Instead Let's Mortar Neighbour Putting Slime Sticky Stone Tar Thoroughly Together UsedJump to Next Bake Bitumen Brick Bricks Burn Burning Earth Instead Let's Mortar Neighbour Putting Slime Sticky Stone Tar Thoroughly Together UsedGenesis 11 1. One language in the world.2. The building of Babel. 5. It is interrupted by the confusion of tongues, and the builders dispersed. 10. The generations of Shem. 27. The generations of Terah, the father of Abram. 31. Terah, with Abram and Lot, move from Ur to Haran. (3) Let us make brick, and burn them throughly.--Heb., for a burning. Bricks in the East usually are simply dried in the sun, and this produces a sufficiently durable building material. It marks a great progress in the arts of civilisation that these nomads had learned that clay when burnt becomes insoluble; and their buildings with "slime," or native pitch, for cement would be virtually indestructible. In fact, Mr. Layard says that at Birs-Nimroud it was scarcely possible to detach the bricks one from another, as the cement by which they were united was most tenacious (Nineveh and Babylon, p. 499).Verse 3. - And they said one to another. Literally, a man to his neighbor; ἄνθρωπος τῷ πλησίον αὐτοῦ (LXX.). Go to. A hortatory expletive - come on (Anglice). Let us make brick. Nilbenah lebenim; literally, let us brick bricks; πλινθεύσωμεν πλίνθους (LXX.); laterifecimus lateres (Calvin); lebenah (from laban, to be white), being so called from the white and chalky day of which bricks were made. And burn them thoroughly. Literally, burn them to a burning; venisrephah lisrephah, a second alliteration, which, however, the LXX. fails to reproduce. Bricks were usually sun-dried; these, being designed to be more durable, were to be calcined through the agency of fire, a proof that the tower-builders were acquainted with the art of brick-making. And they had - literally, and there was to theme - brick for stone. Chiefly because of the necessities of the place, the alluvial plain of Babylon being void of stones and full of clay; a proof of the greatness of their crime, seeing they were induced to undertake the work non facilitate operis, nec aliis commodis, quae se ad manum offerrent (Calvin); scarcely because bricks would better endure fire than would stones, the second destruction of the world by fire rather than water being by this time a common expectation (Com a Lapide). Josephus, 'Ant., lib. 1. cp. 4; Herod, lib. 1. cp. 179; Justin, lib. 1. cp. 2; Ovid, ' Metam.,' 4:4; and Aristoph. in Avibus (περιτευχίζειν μεγάλαις πλίνθοις ὀπταῖς ὥσπερ Βαβυλῶνα), all attest that the walls of Babylon were built of brick. The mention of the circumstance that brick was used instead of stone "indicates a writer belonging to a country and an age in which stone buildings were familiar, and therefore not to Babylonia" (Murphy). And slime. Chemer, from chamar, to boil up; ἄσφαλτος (LXX.); the bitumen which boils up from subterranean fountains like oil or hot pitch in the vicinity of Babylon, and also near the Dead Sea (lacus asphaltites). Tacitus, ' Hist.,' 5:6; Strabo, 16. p. 743; Herod., lib. h c. 179; Josephus, 'Antiq.,' lib. 1. c. 41 Pliny, lib. 35. 100. 15; Vitruvius, lib. 8. c. 3, are unanimous in declaring that the brick walls of Babylon were cemented with bitumen. Layard testifies that so firmly have the bricks been united that it is almost impossible to detach one from the mass ('Nineveh and Babylon,' p. 499). Had they. Literally, was to them. For mortar. Chomer. The third instance of alliteration in the present verse; possibly designed by the writer to represent the enthusiasm of the builders. Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew And they saidוַיֹּאמְר֞וּ (way·yō·mə·rū) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural Strong's 559: To utter, say to אֶל־ (’el-) Preposition Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to one אִ֣ישׁ (’îš) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 376: A man as an individual, a male person another, רֵעֵ֗הוּ (rê·‘ê·hū) Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular Strong's 7453: Friend, companion, fellow “Come, הָ֚בָה (hā·ḇāh) Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular | third person feminine singular Strong's 3051: To give, to put, imperatively, come let us make נִלְבְּנָ֣ה (nil·bə·nāh) Verb - Qal - Imperfect Cohortative - first person common plural Strong's 3835: To be, white, to make bricks bricks לְבֵנִ֔ים (lə·ḇê·nîm) Noun - feminine plural Strong's 3843: Brick, tile and bake וְנִשְׂרְפָ֖ה (wə·niś·rə·p̄āh) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive imperfect Cohortative - first person common plural Strong's 8313: To be, on fire them thoroughly.” לִשְׂרֵפָ֑ה (liś·rê·p̄āh) Preposition-l | Noun - feminine singular Strong's 8316: Cremation So they used וַתְּהִ֨י (wat·tə·hî) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be brick הַלְּבֵנָה֙ (hal·lə·ḇê·nāh) Article | Noun - feminine singular Strong's 3843: Brick, tile instead of stone, לְאָ֔בֶן (lə·’ā·ḇen) Preposition-l | Noun - feminine singular Strong's 68: A stone and tar וְהַ֣חֵמָ֔ר (wə·ha·ḥê·mār) Conjunctive waw, Article | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 2564: Bitumen, asphalt instead of mortar. לַחֹֽמֶר׃ (la·ḥō·mer) Preposition-l, Article | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 2563: A bubbling up, of water, a wave, of earth, mire, clay, a heap, a chomer, dry measure Links Genesis 11:3 NIVGenesis 11:3 NLT Genesis 11:3 ESV Genesis 11:3 NASB Genesis 11:3 KJV Genesis 11:3 BibleApps.com Genesis 11:3 Biblia Paralela Genesis 11:3 Chinese Bible Genesis 11:3 French Bible Genesis 11:3 Catholic Bible OT Law: Genesis 11:3 They said one to another Come let's (Gen. 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