 | Thomas Paine, Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Rationalism - 1834 - 408 pages
...And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower whose top may reach unto heaven, and let ua 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... | |
 | Adam Clarke - 1834 - 1038 pages
...stone, nor time-stone; hence they had brick for stone, and asphallus, or bitumen, instead of mortar. nnd m. 6 And m Lot went out at the door unto them, and shut the luce of the whole earth. 5 * And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children... | |
 | Richard Westall, John Martin - 1835 - 204 pages
...man became vain of his power and arrogant in his imagined supremacy. " 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. And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the children of men builded.... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1835 - 532 pages
...have conceived that this was their intention. Lastly, the reason is delivered in the text. " Let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto...make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the whole earth ; " as we have already begun to wander over a part. These were the open ends proposed unto... | |
 | George Robert Gleig - Bible - 1835 - 326 pages
...sweep, it appears to us, that the concluding clause of the verse wherein they are represented as saying, "and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth," places the transaction with the designs of its inventors, in their true light. Without... | |
 | Joseph Bosworth - Dutch philology - 1836 - 52 pages
...the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there." Because the people said, "Let us build us a city and a tower, whose top...name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth," when the Lord had determined that they should be dispersed, and thus " replenish... | |
 | Thomas Harttree Cornish - Women - 1836 - 538 pages
...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 tower, whose top may reach...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.... | |
 | Oriental literature - 1836 - 670 pages
...upon them. And they said, " Go to, let us build unto us a fortified wall, and towers round about it ; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth||," and they did so. And Genoa builded a fort for herself, and gathered silver like... | |
 | Joseph (ha-Kohen) - Europe - 1836 - 544 pages
...upon them. And they said, " Go to, let us build unto us a fortified wall, and towers round about it ; and let us make us a name lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth||," and they did so. And Genoa builded a fort for herself, and gathered silver like... | |
 | Joseph Hall - Bishops - 1837 - 600 pages
...cleaving pitchy slime, which that soil yieldeth, instead of mortar. XI. 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. Then Nimrod, as their ringleader, and the rest of his followers, said thus in consultation... | |
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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. 
