| Nathan Covington Brooks - 1837 - 220 pàgines
...dust. THE TOWER OF BABEL. And they gaid Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower whose too may , each unto heaven ; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the earth And the Lord said Behold, the people is one; and they hare all one language and this they... | |
| William Thistlethwaite - 1837 - 982 pàgines
...slime had they for morter. And they said, let us build us a city, and a tower whose top may reach to heaven ; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth." This is all the account we have of their project. In what <lid the offence of it... | |
| Henry Duncan - 1837 - 426 pàgines
...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 are not in the original. This clause of the verse,... | |
| Joseph Bosworth - 1838 - 962 pàgines
...speech," or 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...name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the wJiole earth," when the Lord had determined that they should be dispersed, and thus "replenish... | |
| William Balfour Winning - 1838 - 314 pàgines
...have taken counsel together, how they might avert their impending fate, " and they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower whose top may reach unto...name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth" (Gen.... | |
| William Fleming - 1838 - 612 pàgines
...developed their intention, which was to build an immense and lofty tower. " And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower whose top may reach unto...name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth," Gen. xi. 4. The expression employed by the sacred historian regarding this tower,... | |
| George Bush - 1839 - 738 pàgines
...fragment of a vessel which had possibly contained them. — KEPPEL. Ver. 4. And they said, Go to, let us build us a. city, and a tower, whose top may reach...name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. The words in which they couched their daring resolution, " Let us build us a city,... | |
| Philip Henry - 1839 - 342 pàgines
...throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. 4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto...name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. How many have been put upon great, and troublesome, and chargeable, and sometimes... | |
| Henry Duncan - 1839 - 436 pàgines
...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 unto...name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth," (Gen. xi. 4.) The words in italics are not in tho original. This clause of the verse,... | |
| 1839 - 836 pàgines
...impatient of submission, they said, " Let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top shall reach to heaven ; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth." The Almighty ruined their ambitious plan. He confounded their language, so that they... | |
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