Genesis 11:3
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And each one said to his neighbour: Come let us make brick, and bake them with fire. And they had brick instead of stones, and slime instead of mortar:

they said one to another.

Genesis 11:4,7 And they said: Come, let us make a city and a tower, the top whereof may reach to heaven; and let us make our name famous before we be scattered abroad into all lands. . . .

Psalm 64:5 They will shoot at him on a sudden, and will not fear: they are resolute in wickedness. They have talked of hiding snares; they have said: Who shall see them?

Proverbs 1:11 Let us swallow him up alive like hell, and whole as one that goeth down into the pit.

Ecclesiastes 2:1 I said in my heart: I will go, and abound with delights, and enjoy good things. And I saw that this also was vanity.

Isaiah 5:5 And now I will shew you what I will do to my vineyard. I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be wasted: I will break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down.

Isaiah 41:6,7 Every one shall help his neighbour, and shall say to his brother: Be of good courage. . . .

James 4:13 But who art thou that judgest thy neighbour? Behold, now you that say: To-day or to-morrow we will go into such a city, and there we will spend a year and will traffic and make our gain.

James 5:1 Go to now, ye rich men: weep and howl in your miseries, which shall come upon you.

not as.

Hebrews 3:13 But exhort one another every day, whilst it is called to day, that none of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

Hebrews 10:24 And let us consider one another, to provoke unto charity and to good works:

burn throughly.

Exodus 1:14 And 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 5:7-18 You shall give straw no more to the people to make brick, as before; but let them go and gather straw. . . .

2 Samuel 12:31 And bringing forth the people thereof he sawed them, and drove over them chariots armed with iron: and divided them with knives, and made them pass through brickkilns: so did he to all the cities of the children of Ammon: and David returned, with all the army to Jerusalem.

Isaiah 9:10 The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with square stones: they have cut down the sycamores, but we will change them for cedars.

Isaiah 65:3 A people that continually provoke me to anger before my face, that immolate in gardens, and sacrifice upon bricks.

Nahum 3:14 Draw thee water for the siege, build up thy bulwarks: go into the clay, and tread, work it and make brick.

slime.

Genesis 14:10 Now the woodland vale had many pits of slime. And the king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrha turned their backs, and were overthrown there: and they that remained, fled to the mountain.

Exodus 2:3 And when she could hide him no longer, she took a basket made of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and pitch: and put the little babe therein, and laid him in the sedges by the river's brink,

Context
The Tower of Babel
2And when they removed from the east, they found a plain in the land of Sennaar, and dwelt in it. 3And each one said to his neighbour: Come let us make brick, and bake them with fire. And they had brick instead of stones, and slime instead of mortar:4And they said: Come, let us make a city and a tower, the top whereof may reach to heaven; and let us make our name famous before we be scattered abroad into all lands.…
Cross References
Genesis 14:10
Now the woodland vale had many pits of slime. And the king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrha turned their backs, and were overthrown there: and they that remained, fled to the mountain.

Exodus 1:14
And 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 2:3
And when she could hide him no longer, she took a basket made of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and pitch: and put the little babe therein, and laid him in the sedges by the river's brink,

Exodus 5:14
And they that were over the works of the children of Israel, were scourged by Pharao's taskmasters, saying: Why have you not made up the task of bricks, both yesterday and to day, as before?

Lexicon
And they said
וַיֹּאמְר֞וּ (way·yō·mə·rū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 559: To utter, say

to
אֶל־ (’el-)
Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 413: Near, with, among, to

one
אִ֣ישׁ (’îš)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 376: A man as an individual, a male person

another,
רֵעֵ֗הוּ (rê·‘ê·hū)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7453: Friend, companion, fellow

“Come,
הָ֚בָה (hā·ḇāh)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular | third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3051: To give, to put, imperatively, come

let us make
נִלְבְּנָ֣ה (nil·bə·nāh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect Cohortative - first person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 3835: To be, white, to make bricks

bricks
לְבֵנִ֔ים (lə·ḇê·nîm)
Noun - feminine plural
Strong's Hebrew 3843: Brick, tile

and bake
וְנִשְׂרְפָ֖ה (wə·niś·rə·p̄āh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive imperfect Cohortative - first person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 8313: To be, on fire

them thoroughly.”
לִשְׂרֵפָ֑ה (liś·rê·p̄āh)
Preposition-l | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 8316: Cremation

So they used
וַתְּהִ֨י (wat·tə·hî)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

brick
הַלְּבֵנָה֙ (hal·lə·ḇê·nāh)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3843: Brick, tile

instead of stone,
לְאָ֔בֶן (lə·’ā·ḇen)
Preposition-l | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 68: A stone

and tar
וְהַ֣חֵמָ֔ר (wə·ha·ḥê·mār)
Conjunctive waw, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2564: Bitumen, asphalt

instead of mortar.
לַחֹֽמֶר׃ (la·ḥō·mer)
Preposition-l, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2563: A bubbling up, of water, a wave, of earth, mire, clay, a heap, a chomer, dry measure


Additional Translations
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.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.

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.

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.

And they said one to another, Come on, let us make bricks, and burn [them] thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and they had asphalt for mortar.

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.

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.

They said one to another, "Come, let's make bricks, and burn them thoroughly." They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.

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.
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