Genesis 11:3 - Forerunner Commentary

Genesis 11:3

The Tower of Babel

1 Now the whole earth had one language and one¹ speech.

2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land ^aof Shinar, and they dwelt there.

3 Then they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and¹ bake them thoroughly.” They had brick for stone, and they had asphalt for mortar.

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.

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Interlinear Bible for Genesis 11:3:

And they said
'amar (#559) one
'iysh (#376) to
'el (#413) another,
rea` (#7453) Go to,
yahab (#3051) let us make
laban (#3835) brick,
lbenah (#3843) and burn
saraph (#8313) them throughly.
srephah (#8316) And they had
hayah (#1961) brick
lbenah (#3843) for stone,
'eben (#68) and slime
chemar (#2564) had
hayah (#1961) they for mortar.
chomer (#2563)

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