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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Interlinear Bible for Genesis 11:6:

And the LORD
Yhovah (#3068) said,
'amar (#559) Behold,
hen (#2005) the people
`am (#5971) is one,
'echad (#259) and they have all
kol (#3605) one
'echad (#259) language;
saphah (#8193) and this
zeh (#2088) they begin
chalal (#2490) to do:
`asah (#6213) and now
`attah (#6258) nothing
lo' (#3808) will be restrained
batsar (#1219) from
min (#4480) them, which
'aher (#834) they have imagined
zamam (#2161) to do.
`asah (#6213)

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