Genesis 11
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Genesis 11:4-6

4And they said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top 1will reach into heaven, and let’s make 2a name for ourselves; otherwise we 3will be scattered abroad over the face of all the earth.”

5Now 4the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the 5men had built.

6And the Lord said, “Behold, they are one people, and they all have 67the same language. And this is what they have started to do, and now nothing which they plan to do will be 8impossible for them.

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Notes

  1. 1. Genesis 11:4 Deut 1:28; 9:1; Ps 107:26 ↩
  2. 2. Genesis 11:4 Gen 6:4; 2 Sam 8:13 ↩
  3. 3. Genesis 11:4 Deut 4:27 ↩
  4. 4. Genesis 11:5 Gen 18:21; Ex 3:8; 19:11, 18, 20 ↩
  5. 5. Genesis 11:5 Lit sons of mankind ↩
  6. 6. Genesis 11:6 Lit one lip ↩
  7. 7. Genesis 11:6 Gen 11:1 ↩
  8. 8. Genesis 11:6 Lit inaccessible to ↩

Commentaries on Genesis 11

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