Genesis 11:6 - Forerunner Commentary

Genesis 11:6

4 And they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower ^awhose top is in the heavens; let us make a ^bname for ourselves, lest we ^cbe scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.”

5 ^aBut the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built.

6 And the Lord said, “Indeed ^athe people are one and they all have ^bone language, and this is what they begin to do; now nothing that they ^cpropose to do will be withheld from them.

7 Come, ^alet Us go down and there ^bconfuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”

8 So ^athe Lord scattered them abroad from there ^bover the face of all the earth, and they ceased building the city.

9 Therefore its name is called¹ Babel, ^abecause there the Lord confused the language of all the earth; and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.

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10 ^aThis is the genealogy of Shem: Shem was one hundred years old, and begot Arphaxad two years after the flood.

11 After he begot Arphaxad, Shem lived five hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.

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Definitions of words in Genesis 11:6:

All {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}

Begin {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}

Have {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}

Nothing {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}

One {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}

People {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}

Will {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}

Lord {Easton's Bible Dictionary}

Other definition entries containing Genesis 11:6:

Babel, tower of {Easton's}
Antediluvian Patriarchs {I.S.B.E.}
Genesis, 3 {I.S.B.E.}
Omnipresence {I.S.B.E.}
Peleg {I.S.B.E.}
Poetry, Hebrew {I.S.B.E.}
Table Of Nations {I.S.B.E.}
Tongues, Confusion Of {I.S.B.E.}

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