TOWER OF BABEL: 1898 Chromolithograph of a medieval print from the year
1370 showing construction of the tower. In the collection of Wonders of
the Bible.
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GENESIS 11:1-9 -- "And the whole earth
was of one language, and of one speech. And it came to pass, as they
journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar;
and they dwelt there. And they said one to another, Go to, let us make
brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone,
and slime had they for morter. 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. And
the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of
men builded. And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have
all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be
restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go
down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand
one another's speech. So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon
the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did there
confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord
scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth."
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