Genesis 11:3 in every translation
Leer en españolThe same verse in each translation we publish, grouped by language and by the tradition that made it. Numbering is matched for each text (for example, Psalms in the Septuagint).
English
Catholic
DRB Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899
And each one said to his neighbour: Come, let us make brick, and bake them with fire. And they had brick instead of stones, and slime instead of mortar.
CPDV Catholic Public Domain Version
And each one said to his neighbor, “Come, let us make bricks, and bake them with fire.” And they had bricks instead of stones, and pitch instead of mortar.
Protestant
WEB World English Bible (Classic, with Deuterocanon)
They said to one another, “Come, let’s make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.
WEBBE World English Bible British Edition (with Deuterocanon)
They said to one another, “Come, let’s make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.
KJV King James Version (with Apocrypha)
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.
RV Revised Version with Apocrypha
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 mortar.
MSB Majority Standard Bible
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.
BSB Berean Standard Bible
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.
ASV American Standard Version (1901)
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.
LSV Literal Standard Version
and they each say to his neighbor, “Give help, let us make bricks, and burn [them] thoroughly”: and the brick is to them for stone, and the bitumen has been to them for mortar.
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Darby Darby Translation
And they said one to another, Come on, let us make bricks, and burn [them] thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and they had asphalt for mortar.
Webster Noah Webster's Bible (1833)
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.
GNV Geneva Bible (1599)
And they said one to another, Come, let vs make bricke, and burne it in the fire. So they had bricke for stone, and slime had they in steade of morter.
ULB Unlocked Literal Bible
They said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They had brick instead of stone and tar as mortar.
Read in context · Unlocked Literal Bible. Copyright © 2017 Door43 World Missions Community. Text from eBible.org (https://ebible.org/engULB/), unaltered. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Jewish
JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)
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.
Individual translator
Brenton Brenton's English Septuagint
And a man said to his neighbour, Come, let us make bricks and bake them with fire. And the brick was to them for stone, and their mortar was bitumen.
LXXUP Updated Brenton English Septuagint
And a man said to his neighbor, Come, let us make bricks and bake them with fire. And the brick was to them for stone, and their mortar was bitumen.
YLT Young's Literal Translation
and they say each one to his neighbour, 'Give help, let us make bricks, and burn [them] thoroughly:' and the brick is to them for stone, and the bitumen hath been to them for mortar.
FBV Free Bible Version
They said to one another, “Come on, let's make some bricks and bake them with fire.” (They used brick instead of stone, and tar instead of cement).
Read in context · Free Bible Version. Copyright © 2018 Dr. Jonathan Gallagher. Text from eBible.org (https://ebible.org/engfbv/), unaltered. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Scholarly edition
BBE Bible in Basic English
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.
Spanish
Protestant
RV1909 Reina-Valera 1909
Y dijeron los unos á los otros: Vaya, hagamos ladrillo y cozámoslo con fuego. Y fuéles el ladrillo en lugar de piedra, y el betún en lugar de mezcla.
ONBV Biblica Open New Living Bible (Nueva Biblia Viva 2008)
Un día decidieron hacer ladrillos y cocerlos en el fuego. De ese modo usaron los ladrillos en lugar de piedras. Además, emplearon el alquitrán en lugar de mezcla.
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PDT God's Word for You (Latin American Textual Bible)
Entonces se dijeron unos a otros: Vengan, fabriquemos adobes y quemémoslos con fuego. El ladrillo les sirvió en lugar de piedra, y el asfalto en lugar de argamasa.
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Individual translator
VBL Free Bible Version (Spanish)
Y se dijeron unos a otros: “Vengan, juntemos ladrillos y cocinémoslos con fuego”. (Usaron ladrillo en lugar de piedra, y alquitrán en lugar de cemento).
Read in context · Versión Biblia Libre. Copyright © 2018-2020 Jonathan Gallagher y Shelly Barrios de Avila. Texto de eBible.org (https://ebible.org/spavbl/), sin cambios. Licencia CC BY-SA 4.0.
BES Bible in Simple Spanish (2026)
Entonces se dijeron unos a otros: «Vamos, hagamos ladrillos y cozámoslos bien». Usaron ladrillos en vez de piedra y asfalto en vez de mezcla.
Read in context · La Biblia en Español Sencillo, traducida y editada por Irma Flores (AudioBiblia.org).
Greek
Scholarly edition
LXX Brenton's Greek Septuagint
Καὶ εἶπεν ἄνθρωπος τῷ πλησίον αὐτοῦ, δεῦτε πλινθεύσωμεν πλίνθους, καὶ ὀπτήσωμεν αὐτὰς πυρί· καὶ ἐγένετο αὐτοῖς ἡ πλίνθος εἰς λίθον, καὶ ἄσφαλτος ἦν αὐτοῖς ὁ πηλός.
Hebrew
Scholarly edition
WLC Westminster Leningrad Codex
וַיֹּאמְר֞וּ אִ֣ישׁ אֶל־רֵעֵ֗הוּ הָ֚בָה נִלְבְּנָ֣ה לְבֵנִ֔ים וְנִשְׂרְפָ֖ה לִשְׂרֵפָ֑ה וַתְּהִ֨י לָהֶ֤ם הַלְּבֵנָה֙ לְאָ֔בֶן וְהַ֣חֵמָ֔ר הָיָ֥ה לָהֶ֖ם לַחֹֽמֶר׃
Latin
Catholic
VUL Clementine Vulgate
Dixitque alter ad proximum suum: Venite, faciamus lateres, et coquamus eos igni. Habueruntque lateres pro saxis, et bitumen pro cæmento:
Church Slavonic
Orthodox
Slavonic Church Slavonic Bible (Elizabeth Bible)
И҆ речѐ человѣ́къ бли́жнемꙋ своемꙋ̀: прїиди́те, сотвори́мъ плі̑нѳы и҆ и҆спече́мъ и҆̀хъ ѻ҆гне́мъ. И҆ бы́сть и҆̀мъ плі́нѳа въ ка́мень, и҆ бре́нїе вмѣ́стѡ мѣ́ла.
Read in context · Church Slavonic text: Ponomar Project (github.com/typiconman/ponomar), © 2006–2018 Aleksandr Andreev and others, licensed under the GNU General Public License v3 or later. Changes for this site (2026-10-18): lectionary pericope markers, marginal glosses and the closing note of Genesis removed, Psalm verses renumbered to the Russian Synodal numbering, joined verses noted; the words are unchanged.
Russian
Orthodox
Synodal Russian Synodal Bible (1876)
И сказали друг другу: наделаем кирпичей и обожжем огнем. И стали у них кирпичи вместо камней, а земляная смола вместо извести.
Greek (modern)
Individual translator
Vamvas Modern Greek Bible: Vamvas (1850)
Και είπεν ο εις προς τον άλλον, Έλθετε, ας κάμωμεν πλίνθους, και ας ψήσωμεν αυτάς εν πυρί· και εχρησίμευσεν εις αυτούς η μεν πλίνθος αντί πέτρας, η δε άσφαλτος εχρησίμευσεν εις αυτούς αντί πηλού.
Serbian
Individual translator
DK Serbian Bible: Daničić–Karadžić (Cyrillic)
Па рекоше међу собом: Хајде да правимо плоче и да их у ватри печемо. И беху им опеке место камена и смола земљана место креча.
DK latinica Serbian Bible: Daničić–Karadžić (Latin script)
Pa rekoše među sobom: Hajde da pravimo ploče i da ih u vatri pečemo. I behu im opeke mesto kamena i smola zemljana mesto kreča.
Arabic
Protestant
SVD Arabic Bible: Smith–Van Dyck (1865)
وَقَالَ بَعْضُهُمْ لِبَعْضٍ: «هَلُمَّ نَصْنَعُ لِبْنًا وَنَشْوِيهِ شَيًّا». فَكَانَ لَهُمُ ٱللِّبْنُ مَكَانَ ٱلْحَجَرِ، وَكَانَ لَهُمُ ٱلْحُمَرُ مَكَانَ ٱلطِّينِ.
Not in these translations (8)
Tyndale, Scío, PT1904, PT, RP2018, TR, Nestle 1904, SBLGNT