Genesis 11:3 Cross References - Leeser

³ And they said to one another, Go to, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly. And thus the brick served them for stone, and slime served them for mortar.

⁴ And they said, Go to, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower, the top of which may reach unto heaven; and let us make ourselves a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.

⁷ Go to, let us go down, and confound there their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.

¹⁰ And the vale of Siddim was full of slime-pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell therein; and they that remained fled to the mountain.

¹⁴ And they made their lives bitter with hard labor, in mortar, and in bricks, and in all manner of labor in the field; in all their service, wherein they made them labor with rigor.

³ And when she could no longer hide him, she took for him a box of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch; and she put the child therein, and laid it amidst the flags by the brink of the river.

⁷ Ye shall no more give the people straw to make the bricks, as yesterday and the day before; they themselves shall go and gather themselves straw. ⁸ And the number of the bricks, which they did make heretofore, ye shall impose upon them, ye shall not diminish aught thereof; for they are idle: therefore they cry, saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our God. ⁹ Let the work be made to lie heavily upon the men, that they may have enough to do therein; and that they may not pay attention to false words. ¹⁰ And the taskmasters of the people and its officers went out, and they said to the people, saying, Thus saith Pharaoh, I will not give you any straw. ¹¹ Go ye, get yourselves straw from wherever ye can find it; yet not the least shall be taken off from your work. ¹² And the people scattered themselves abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble instead of straw. ¹³ And the taskmasters were urgent, saying, Fulfill your works, every day its due portion, just as when there was straw. ¹⁴ And the officers of the children of Israel, whom the taskmasters of Pharaoh had set over them, were beaten, as these said, Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your task in making brick as heretofore, both yesterday and today? ¹⁵ And the officers of the children of Israel came and cried unto Pharaoh, saying, Wherefore dealest thou thus with thy servants? ¹⁶ Straw is not given unto thy servants, and, Make bricks, say they to us: and, behold, thy servants are beaten, and thy people are treated as sinners. ¹⁷ But he said, Idle are ye, idle; therefore say ye, Let us go and sacrifice to the Lord. ¹⁸ And now go, work, and straw shall not be given you; yet the required number of bricks shall ye deliver.

³¹ And the people that were therein he brought forward, and put them under saws, and under iron threshing-wagons, and under axes of iron, and made them pass through brick-kilns; and thus did he unto all the cities of the children of ‘Ammon: and David returned with them with all the people unto Jerusalem.

^{5 (64:6)} They encourage themselves in an evil plan; they tell secretly of laying snares: they say, Who will see them?

¹¹ If they should say, Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, let us watch in concealment for the uselessly innocent;

¹ Come, then, I said in my heart, I will have a taste of joy, and thou shalt see what is good; but, behold, this also was vanity.

⁵ And now I will let you know also what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it shall be eaten off; I will break down its wall, and it shall be trodden down;

^{10 (9:9)} “The bricks are fallen down, but with hewn stones will we re-build: the sycamores are cut down, but with cedars will we replace them.”

⁶ They help one another; and each one saith to his brother, Be strong! ⁷ So the smith encouraged the melter, he that smootheth with the hammer him that striketh on the anvil; saying of the solder, It is good; and he fastened it with nails, that it should not be moved.

³ To the people that provoke me to anger to my face continually; that sacrifice in gardens and burn incense upon altars of brick,

¹⁴ Water for the siege draw for thyself, fortify thy strongholds: go into the clay, and tread the mortar, make strong the brick-kiln.