And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.
They said to each other, 'Come on, let's make bricks and bake them until they're hard.' So they used bricks instead of stone, and tar instead of mortar.
The people worked together using advanced building techniques to construct something impressive with bricks and tar.
📚 Historical Context
In the biblical narrative of Genesis, after the Great Flood, Noah's descendants had multiplied and settled in the plain of Shinar, which is in ancient Mesopotamia. The people there decided to build a city and a tower to make a name for themselves and avoid being scattered across the earth, defying God's command to fill and subdue it. This verse highlights their resourcefulness in using baked bricks as a substitute for stone and bitumen (referred to as slime) as mortar, which were common materials in that region due to the lack of natural stone.
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