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.


In Context

1 The whole earth was of one language and of one speech.

2 It happened, as they traveled east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they lived there.

3 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.

4 They said, |Come, let's build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let's make ourselves a name, lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth.|

5 Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.

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 New International Version of the Holy Bible

11:3They said to each other, "Come, let's make bricks and bake them thoroughly." They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar.

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 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.