Dict: easton - Bricks

easton:

Bricks @ the making of, formed the chief labour of the Israelites in Egypt kjv@Exodus:1:13-14). Those found among the ruins of Babylon and Nineveh are about a foot square and four inches thick. They were usually dried in the sun, though also sometimes in kilns ( kjv@2Samuel:12:31; kjv@Jeremiah:43:9; kjv@Nahum:3:14). (
See NEBUCHADNEZZAR.) The bricks used in the tower of Babel were burnt bricks, cemented in the building by bitumen kjv@Genesis:11:3).