And they said : Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven, and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. Genesis to Chronicles - Page xiii1815Full view - About this book
| Henry Duncan - Natural theology - 1847 - 430 pages
...find in Scripture, the intentions of the builders are, in our translation, rendered in these words, " And they said, go to, let us build us a city, and...name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth," (Gen. xi. 4.) The words in italics are not in the original. This clause of the verse,... | |
| Louisa Caroline Tuthill - Architecture - 1848 - 512 pages
...us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and...name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth." This presumptuous undertaking was arrested, after the walls had been raised to a... | |
| Bible - 1849 - 360 pages
...make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and...name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.... | |
| Benjamin Wills Newton - Bible - 1849 - 164 pages
...us make brick and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a...name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth." But the Lord interfered ; He came down, confounded their speech, and scattered them... | |
| 1850 - 830 pages
...make brick, and yburn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. I have heard the voice of the words of this people,...that they have spoken. 29 O/ that there were such an LOED said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language ; and this they begin to do :... | |
| Mystery - 1850 - 512 pages
...us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and...name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of. the whole earth." (Gen. xi. 1 — 4.) Here we have an inspired account of Satan's attempt to lay the... | |
| William Sandys Wright Vaux - Assyria - 1850 - 488 pages
...terra unius labii, et sermonum eorundem." " The earth was of one lip, and of like words." Again : — " And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a...name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.... | |
| Charles Simmons - Bible - 1850 - 532 pages
...desolate. [See 230.] PKIDE AND SELF-CONCEIT. 549. Pride, and self-conceit, prevalent evils. Gen. 11: 4 They said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower,...name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. Ps. 10: 2 The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor. — 73: 6 Pride compasseth... | |
| United States - 1851 - 508 pages
...169. Heaven is not so far distant but that the builders of the tower of Babel hoped to reach it. " And they said, go to, let us build us a city and a...name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the children of men builded.... | |
| Samuel Prout Newcombe - 1851 - 250 pages
...us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and...name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.... | |
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