Genesis 11:3 Cross References - MSTC

³ And they said, one to another, "Come on, let us make brick and burn it with fire." So brick was their stone and slime was their mortar.

⁴ And they said, "Come on, let us build us a city and a tower, that the top may reach unto heaven. And let us make us a name, for peradventure we shall be scattered abroad over all the earth."

⁷ Come on, let us descend and mingle their tongue even there, that one understand not what another sayeth."

¹⁰ And that vale of Siddim was full of slime pits. And the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there. And the residue fled to the mountains.

¹⁴ and made their lives bitter unto them with cruel labour in clay and brick, and all manner work in the fields, and in all manner of service, which they caused them to work cruelly.

³ And when she could no longer hide him, she took a basket of bulrushes and daubed it with slime and pitch, and laid the child therein, and put it in the flags by the river's brink.

⁷ "See that ye give the people no more straw to make brick withal, as ye did in time past: let them go and gather them straw themselves. ⁸ And the number of bricks which they were wont to make in time past, lay unto their charge also, and minish nothing thereof. For they be idle and therefore cry, saying, 'Let us go and do sacrifice unto our God.' ⁹ They must have more work laid upon them, that they may labour therein, and then will they not turn themselves to false words." ¹⁰ Then went the taskmasters of the people and the officers out and told the people, saying, "Thus sayeth Pharaoh, "I will give you no more straw, ¹¹ but go yourselves and gather you straw where ye can find it, yet shall none of your labour be minished.'" ¹² Then the people scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt for to gather them stubble to be instead of straw. ¹³ And the taskmasters hasted them forward, saying, "Fulfill your work day by day, even as when straw was given you." ¹⁴ And the officers of the children of Israel which Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten. And it was said unto them, "Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your task in making brick, both yesterday and today, as well as in times past?" ¹⁵ Then went the officers of the children of Israel and complained unto Pharaoh saying, "Wherefore dealest thou thus with thy servants? ¹⁶ There is no straw given unto thy servants, and yet they say unto us, 'make brick.' And lo, thy servants are beaten, and thy people is foul intreated." ¹⁷ And he answered, "Idle are ye idle, and therefore ye say, 'Let us go and do sacrifice unto the LORD.' ¹⁸ Go therefore and work, for there shall no straw be given you, and yet see that ye deliver the whole tale of brick."

³¹ And he brought out the people that was therein and sawed them and drew harrows of iron upon them, and shred some of them with shredding knives of iron, and thrust some into furnaces. And so he served all the cities of the children of Ammon. And then David and all the people returned unto Jerusalem.

⁵ They have devised mischief, and communed among themselves how they may lay snares. "Tush," say they, "Who shall see them?"

¹¹ if they entice thee, and say, "Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, and lurk privily for the innocent without a cause:

¹ Then said I thus in my heart, "Now go to, I will take mine ease and have good days." But lo, that was vanity also:

⁵ Well, now I shall tell you how I will do with my vineyard: I will take the hedge from it, that it may perish, and break down the wall, that it may be trodden under foot.

¹⁰ "The tile work is fallen down, but we will build it with squared stones. The Mulberry timber is broken, but we shall set it up again with Cedar."

⁶ Every man exhorted his neighbour, and brother, and bad him be strong. ⁷ The Smith comforted the molder, and the Ironsmith the hammer man, saying, 'It shall be good, that we fasten this cast work,' and then they fastened it with nails, that it should not be moved.

³ To a people that is ever defying me to my face. They make their oblations in gardens, and their smoke upon altars of brick;

¹⁴ Draw water now against thou be besieged, make up thy strongholds, go into the clay, temper the mortar, make strong brick:

¹³ but exhort one another daily, while it is called today, lest any of you wax hard hearted through the deceitfulness of sin.

²⁴ and let us consider one another to provoke unto love, and to good works:

¹³ Go to now, ye that say, "Today and tomorrow let us go into such a city and continue there a year and buy, and sell, and win,"

¹ Go to now, ye rich men. Weep, and howl on your wretchedness that shall come upon you.