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Genesis 11:3

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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.

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Genesis 11:3 in other translations

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.

Genesis 11:3 · American Standard Version

Genesis 11:3 in context

  1. 1The whole earth was of one language and of one speech.
  2. 2As they traveled from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they lived there.
  3. 3They said to one another, “Come, let’s make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.
  4. 4They said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let’s make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth.”
  5. 5Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.