...intentions of the builders are, in our translation, rendered in these words, " And they said, go to, let us build us a city, and a tower whose top may reach into heaven, and let us make us a name, lest we. be scattered abroad, upon the face of the whole earth," (Gen xi. 40.) The words in italics...

...Then, all the men upon the whole earth had but one common language, and one fashion of speech. XI. 2. And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the iandofShinar, and they dwelt there. And as they spread themselves from that eastern mountainous country,...

...Heb.ftp. — *Heb. tcordj.— - c Or, emfuwrd, as ch. xiii. 11 ; 2 Sam. NOTES ON CHAP. XI. "• «'>• 0 3 And d they said one to another, Go to, let •i 2, with 1 Chron. xiii. 6. •' Heb. a man laid to...

...speech. As the descendants of one common family, they spoke of course the same language in common. " And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east,...land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. And they said one to another, Let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime...

...of one lip£ and of like words.§ "And it came to pass, as they (the families of the sons of Noah) journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there." Because the people said, " Let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven ; and...

...first that was established after the nood. For this purpose, " they journeyed from the east/' and " found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there ; and there they were determined to remain ¡ for they said, " Go to, let us build us a city and в Cower,...

...degree probable, though the historical proofs necessary to demonstrate the position have not been 2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east,...plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there. preserved to us. It appears quite evident that throughout Mesopotamia, Babylonia, Assyria, Syria, Palestine,...

...II. Of the pedigree of the sons of God. AND the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. 2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east,...plain in the land of Shinar ; and they dwelt there. 3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick...

...1 AND the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. And it came to pass, r , . , /. * ,i as they journeyed from the east, that they found a...land of Shinar ; and they dwelt there. And they said one to another, Go to, let nt make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and...

...from Ur to Haran. AND the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. 2 And it came to paas, he nether part of the mount. 18 And mount Sinai was altogether on a •moke, bccatue 3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick...