“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.”
Genesis 11:3
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- The Tower of Babel: Why God Came Down to Scatter Them (Genesis 11:1-9)
Why does the text dwell on bricks and a tower?
The mud brick, lebenah in Hebrew, is manufactured stone, man-made where the hill country offered God-made rock. On the plain of Shinar they raised a tower meant to reach the heavens, a self-made climb toward God's realm. Yet the LORD "came down to see the city and the tower" (Genesis 11:5). The height meant to close the distance only showed how far off the project was.
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