| Freemasons - 1746 - 256 pages
...Noah partition'd the Earth, ordering fome old Traditions, them to difperfe and take Poffeflion ; but they found a Plain in the Land of SHINAR, and dwelt there together, as NOACHIDJE *, or Sons of from a Fear of the ill Confequences of Separation-, they refolved... | |
| John Milton - 1795 - 260 pages
...worst of rehels. 40. Marching from Eden towards the -.pKt, &c.1 Gen. xi, a, OK. " And it came to pass as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar And they had hrick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. And they laid, Go to, let us huild us a city... | |
| Freemasonry - 1795 - 466 pages
...all of one language and speech, it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east toward the west f, they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and dwelt there together as Noachidae, or sons of Noah, the first name of Masons. And when Noah ordered his sons and... | |
| Literature, Modern - 1799 - 622 pages
...the paflage in Gencfis, ch. xi. ver. 2. which our tranfhtors give thus ; — " And it came to pafs, as they journeyed FROM THE EAST, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there." The difficulty has been to reconcile this journeying from tie Eaß to Shinar, with... | |
| 1828 - 722 pages
...Babylon. ' And the whole earth was of one ' language and of one speech. And it came to pass, as they f 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.... | |
| Christianity - 1803 - 430 pages
...they knew) was of one lan'' guage and of one .speech. — And it came to pass as they jour'' neyed 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,... | |
| Jacob Bryant - Folklore and history - 1807 - 494 pages
...historian are these : *° 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.... | |
| Jacob Bryant - Folklore and history - 1807 - 502 pages
...the words of Moses. 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. But I am not certain that these words afford any proof to this opinion : for, in... | |
| Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 574 pages
...wherefore, it is ever since grown into a proverb, As great a tyrant as Xunroll. XI. 2 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 as they spread themselves from that eastern mountainous country, where the ark... | |
| Bible - 1808 - 524 pages
...Now when the whole earth was of one lip and all had one 2 voice, it came to pass as they were moving from the east that they found a plain in the land of Sennaar and setded there. 3 And they said one to another, Come let us make bricks and bake them with... | |
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