Genesis 11:2-3

The Tower of Babel

2 And as people migrated from the east, they found a plain in z the land of Shinar and settled there. 3 And they said to one another, "Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly." And they had brick for stone, a and bitumen for mortar.

  1. Cross References
    Genesis 10:10
    The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, ...
    Genesis 14:1
    In the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch ...
    Genesis 14:9
    With Chedorlaomer king of Elam, Tidal king of G...
    Isaiah 11:11
    In that day the Lord will extend his hand yet a...
    Daniel 1:2
    And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into ...
    Zechariah 5:11
    He said to me, "To the land of Shinar, to build...
  2. Cross References
    Genesis 14:10
    Now the Valley of Siddim was full of bitumen pits, and as the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, some fell into them, and the rest fled to the hill country.
    Exodus 2:3
    When she could hide him no longer, she took for him a basket made of bulrushes and daubed it with bitumen and pitch. She put the child in it and placed it among the reeds by the river bank.
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