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Genesis 11:4
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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.  
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.  

Shem’s Descendants

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.
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Genesis 11:4

a tower whose top may reach unto heaven—a common figurative expression for great height (Deuteronomy 1:28; 9:1-6).

lest we be scattered—To build a city and a town was no crime; but to do this to defeat the counsels of heaven by attempting to prevent emigration was foolish, wicked, and justly offensive to God.




Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Genesis 11:4:

Genesis 5:1
Ecclesiastes 2:16
Habakkuk 2:9
Zephaniah 3:9

 

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