Genesis 11:3
Genesis 11:3 The Message (MSG)
They said to one another, “Come, let’s make bricks and fire them well.” They used brick for stone and tar for mortar.
Genesis 11:3 King James Version (KJV)
And 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.
Genesis 11:3 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)
They said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and burn them thoroughly.” And they used brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.
Genesis 11:3 New Century Version (NCV)
They said to each other, “Let’s make bricks and bake them to make them hard.” So they used bricks instead of stones, and tar instead of mortar.
Genesis 11:3 American Standard Version (ASV)
And 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.
Genesis 11:3 New International Version (NIV)
They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar.
Genesis 11:3 New King James Version (NKJV)
Then they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They had brick for stone, and they had asphalt for mortar.
Genesis 11:3 Amplified Bible (AMP)
They said one to another, “Come, let us make bricks and fire them thoroughly [in a kiln, to harden and strengthen them].” So they used brick for stone [as building material], and they used tar (bitumen, asphalt) for mortar.
Genesis 11:3 New Living Translation (NLT)
They began saying to each other, “Let’s make bricks and harden them with fire.” (In this region bricks were used instead of stone, and tar was used for mortar.)