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Genesis 11:3

NETBible	Then they said to one another,¹ “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.”² (They had brick instead of stone and tar³ instead of mortar.)⁴
NIV © biblegateway Gen 11:3	They said to each other, "Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly." They used brick instead of stone, and bitumen for mortar.
NASB © biblegateway Gen 11:3	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.
NLT © biblegateway Gen 11:3	They began to talk about construction projects. "Come," they said, "let’s make great piles of burnt brick and collect natural asphalt to use as mortar.
MSG © biblegateway Gen 11:3	They said to one another, "Come, let's make bricks and fire them well." They used brick for stone and tar for mortar.
BBE © SABDAweb Gen 11:3	And they said one to another, Come, let us make bricks, burning them well. And they had bricks for stone, putting them together with sticky earth.
NRSV © bibleoremus Gen 11:3	And they said to one another, "Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly." And they had brick for stone, and bitumen for mortar.
NKJV © biblegateway Gen 11:3	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.
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KJV	And they said <0559> (8799) one <0376> to another <07453>_, Go to <03051> (8798)_, let us make <03835> (8799) brick <03843>_, and burn <08313> (8799) them throughly <08316>_. And they had brick <03843> for stone <068>_, and slime <02564> had <01961> (8804) they for morter <02563>_. {they said...: Heb. a man said to his neighbour} {burn...: Heb. burn them to a burning}
NASB © biblegateway Gen 11:3	They said <0559> to one <0376> another <07453> , "Come <03051> , let us make <03835> bricks <03835> and burn <08313> them thoroughly <08316> ." And they used <01961> brick <03843> for stone <068> , and they used <01961> tar <02564> for mortar <02563> .
LXXM	kai <2532> CONJ eipen {V-AAI-3S} anyrwpov <444> N-NSM tw <3588> T-DSM plhsion <4139> ADV deute <1205> ADV plinyeuswmen {V-AAS-1P} plinyouv {N-APF} kai <2532> CONJ opthswmen {V-AAS-1P} autav <846> D-APF puri <4442> N-DSN kai <2532> CONJ egeneto <1096> V-AMI-3S autoiv <846> D-DPM h <3588> T-NSF plinyov {N-NSF} eiv <1519> PREP liyon <3037> N-ASM kai <2532> CONJ asfaltov {N-NSF} hn <1510> V-IAI-3S autoiv <846> D-DPM o <3588> T-NSM phlov <4081> N-NSM
NET [draft] ITL	Then they said <0559> to <0413> one <0376> another <07453> , “Come, let’s <03051> make <03835> bricks <03843> and bake <08313> them thoroughly <08316> .” (They had brick <03843> instead of stone <068> and tar <02564> instead of mortar <02563> .)
HEBREW	rmxl <02563> Mhl <0> hyh <01961> rmxhw <02564> Nbal <068> hnblh <03843> Mhl <0> yhtw <01961> hprvl <08316> hprvnw <08313> Mynbl <03843> hnbln <03835> hbh <03051> wher <07453> la <0413> sya <0376> wrmayw (11:3) <0559>

NETBible

Then they said to one another,¹ “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.”² (They had brick instead of stone and tar³ instead of mortar.)⁴

NET Notes

¹tn Heb “a man to his neighbor.” The Hebrew idiom may be translated “to each other” or “one to another.”

²tn The speech contains two cohortatives of exhortation followed by their respective cognate accusatives: “let us brick bricks” (נִלְבְּנָה לְבֵנִים, nilbbÿnah lÿvenim) and “burn for burning” (נִשְׂרְפָה לִשְׂרֵפָה, nisrÿfah lisrefah). This stresses the intensity of the undertaking; it also reflects the Akkadian text which uses similar constructions (see E. A. Speiser, Genesis [AB], 75-76).

³tn Or “bitumen” (cf. NEB, NRSV).

⁴tn The disjunctive clause gives information parenthetical to the narrative.