 | 1830 - 1070 pages
...Tht Confusion of Languages. AND the whole earth was of one language, and of one speedv. 2 And it come to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they...plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there. 3 And they said one to another, Go to, let ua make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick... | |
 | 1831 - 676 pages
...plain in the land of Into the land of Canaan ; and they came unto Sl.inar, and they dwell there. 3 A ml they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick,...had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. 4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven ; and... | |
 | James Barry - 1831 - 228 pages
...the consultation at Shenaar, long before Semiramis and Babylon: Go to! (say the subjects of Nimrod) let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly, and they...brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar: and against this passage in the margin, the Hebrew word is intimated to mean burn them to a burning. Surely... | |
 | John Murray - Archaeology - 1831 - 324 pages
...of Genesis, cannot be doubted. We are informed in a subsequent chapter, that " the whole earth was of one language and of one speech. And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east (or eastward) that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there — and they said... | |
 | ʿAbd al-Razzâḳ b. Najaf Ḳulî - 1833 - 678 pages
...of the 2d verse of the 9th chapter of Genesis I have always considered as very interesting : — " And it came to pass, as they journeyed "from the East,...that they found a plain in the land " of Shinar." The pronoun they assuredly refers only to the sons and grandsons, &c. of the Patriarch ; because he... | |
 | Thomas Paine, Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Rationalism - 1834 - 408 pages
...Genesis. It begins thus : — " And the whole earth (it was but a very little part of it they knew) was of one language and of one speech. — And it came...said one to another, Go to, let us make brick and sburn them thoroughly, and they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. — And they said,... | |
 | Charles Tilstone Beke - Bible - 1834 - 366 pages
...verses of this short yet distinct and comprehensive account, inform us, that " the " whole earth was of one language and of one " speech; and it came to...found a plain in the " land of Shinar, and they dwelt there4." However it may have been attempted to construe these words, it appears to me that only one... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Bible - 1834 - 276 pages
...he. LANGUAGE CONFOUNDED. GEN. xi. — 1 And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. 2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east,...plain in the land of Shinar ; and they dwelt there. 3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. 2» And they made... | |
 | English literature - 1834 - 864 pages
...description of Babylon in Herodotus, and not to feel convinced that they relate to the same site. ' They found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they...there. And they said one to another, Go to, let us make bricks, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar.'* ' Babylon,'... | |
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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. 
