 | Edwin Abbott Abbott - 1910 - 936 pages
...is suggested by the first instance in which the Bible uses the plural phrase "sons of man" (lit.) " The Lord came down to see the city and the tower that the sons of the adam builded'." 1 [3026 a] Ps. Ixxxii. i — 7. In Ps. xvii. 4 "as for the works of adam"... | |
 | 1927 - 486 pages
...a tower, whose top may reach to heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth." But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men had built. Then the Lord said: "Behold, the people is one, and... | |
 | Joseph P. Free, Howard Frederic Vos - 1992 - 324 pages
...exalt their name. They urged each other on by saying, "Let us build ourselves a city, with a tower. . . that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered. . . ." (Gen. 11:4). God's name was conspicuously absent in their carefully laid plans. It was purely... | |
 | Gareth Weldon Icenogle - 1994 - 404 pages
...these great cities were located on the plain of Shinar (Babylon). On this plain the people decided, "Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower...not be scattered over the face of the whole earth" (Gen 11:4). However, such a drive to reach heaven and rule with the gods was not what God desired for... | |
 | Gene Edward Veith Jr. - 1994 - 260 pages
...11:1). Exhilarated with their unity, their common understanding, and their technological ability, people said, '"Come, let us build ourselves a city, with...heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves'" (11:4). The culture that built the Tower of Babel parallels the modern age. Confident in their human... | |
 | Fredrick Carlson Holmgren, Herman Ezra Schaalman - 1995 - 192 pages
...only that the actions of the remarkably unified descendants of Noah somehow displeased the Lord. When the Lord came down to see the city and the tower that they had built, the Lord acknowledged that there was great power inherent in human unity: "They are... | |
 | Steven J. Keillor - 1996 - 372 pages
...project reveals that "the whole world had one language and a common speech" — and a common ambition: "Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower...reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves."27 Industrial capitalism and its consumer culture were more efficient, more democratic and... | |
 | Dennis Marcellino - 1996 - 308 pages
...a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves; lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth. " But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built. And the LORD said: "If now, while they are one people, all... | |
 | Robert Alter - 1997 - 382 pages
...its top in the heavens, that we may 5 make us a name, lest we be scattered over all the earth. And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the human creatures had 6 built. And the LORD said, "As one people with one language for all, if this is... | |
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Come, let's make bricks and bake them thoroughly." They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar.Then they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves and not be... 
