Cross references

Genesis 11:3

And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” So they used brick instead of stone, and tar instead of mortar.

Genesis 11:3 BSB

Genesis 11:3 has 19 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 9 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Genesis 14:10 (8 votes) and Exodus 1:14 (7 votes). 10 other verses point back to it. It links with 12 other books, from Genesis 10 to James 5.

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Which verses does Genesis 11:3 point to?

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  1. Now the Valley of Siddim was full of tar pits, and as the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, some men fell into the pits, but the survivors fled to the hill country.

  2. and made their lives bitter with hard labor in brick and mortar, and with all kinds of work in the fields. Every service they imposed was harsh.

  3. Exodus 2:36 votes

    But when she could no longer hide him, she got him a papyrus basket and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in the basket and set it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile.

  4. And let us consider how to spur one another on to love and good deeds.

  5. James 5:15 votes

    Come now, you who are rich, weep and wail over the misery to come upon you.

  6. David brought out the people who were there and put them to work with saws, iron picks, and axes, and he made them work at the brick kilns. He did the same to all the Ammonite cities. Then David and all his troops returned to Jerusalem.

  7. “The bricks have fallen, but we will rebuild with finished stone; the sycamores have been felled, but we will replace them with cedars.”

  8. Each one helps the other and says to his brother, “Be strong!” The craftsman encourages the goldsmith, and he who wields the hammer cheers him who strikes the anvil, saying of the welding, “It is good.” He nails it down so it will not be toppled.

  9. But exhort one another daily, as long as it is called today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.

  10. “Come,” they said, “let us build for ourselves a city with a tower that reaches to the heavens, that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of all the earth.”

  11. Come, let Us go down and confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.”

  12. Psalm 64:53 votes
  13. Isaiah 5:53 votes
  14. Nahum 3:143 votes
  15. James 4:133 votes

Which verses point to Genesis 11:3?

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