Genesis 11:4-6
1599 Geneva Bible
4 Also they said, Go to, let us [a]build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto the heaven, that we may get us a name, lest we be scattered upon the whole earth.
5 But the Lord [b]came down, to see the city and tower which the sons of men built.
6 And the Lord said, [c]Behold, the people is one, and they all have one language, and this they begin to do, neither can they now be stopped from whatsoever they have imagined to do.
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- Genesis 11:4 They were moved with pride and ambition, thinking to prefer their own glory to God’s honor.
- Genesis 11:5 Meaning, that he declared by effect, that he knew their wicked enterprise: for God’s power is everywhere, and doth neither ascend nor descend.
- Genesis 11:6 God speaketh this in derision, because of their foolish persuasion and enterprise.
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