3They said to each other, "Come, let's make bricks and bake them thoroughly." They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar.


In Context

1 Now the whole world had one language and a common speech.

2 As men moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there.

3 They said to each other, "Come, let's make bricks and bake them thoroughly." They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar.

4 Then they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of the whole earth."

5 But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower that the men were building.

Genesis 11:3 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

11:3And 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.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

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

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

11:3And 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.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

11:3And 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.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

11:3And 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.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

11:3And 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.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

11:3They said one to another, |Come, let's make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.| They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

11:3and 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.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

11:3And 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.