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. The Saturday Magazine - Page 1221840Full view - About this book
| 1827 - 842 pages
...plain in the land of Shinar : and they dwelt there. 3 11 And they said one to another. Go to, le.Uus f speech hath thy servant Joab done this thing : and my lord is wise. according to the wisdom of I And they said, Go to, fel us build us a city, and a lower, whose top may reach unto heaven ; and... | |
| 1829 - 1012 pages
...they found a 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. And they had brick for stone, top lake build may and slime had they for mortar. 4 And they said. Go to, let us us a city, and a tower,... | |
| Robert Mignan - 1829 - 386 pages
...kiln, and set in good lime and bitumen." — Vide Pietro Delia Valle's Travels, vol. ii. let. 1 7. * " And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar." Genesis, chap. iv 4. — The cement, here mentioned by the name of slime, was probably what the ancients... | |
| Robert Mignan - 1829 - 378 pages
...kiln, and set in good lime and bitumen."—Vide Pietro Delia Valle's Travels, vol. ii. let. 17. * " And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar." Genesis, chap. iv 4.—The cement, here mentioned by the name of slime, was probably what the ancients... | |
| Alexander Campbell, Charles Louis Loos - 1841 - 628 pages
...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 mortar. And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let... | |
| American Sunday-School Union - 1830 - 194 pages
...they found a plain in the and of Shinar ; and they dwelt there. 3 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 mortar. 4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a towee£* iv hose top may reach unto heaven ; and... | |
| William Hales - 1830 - 510 pages
...exactly does this correspond to the builders of Babel: " Let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar." Gen. xi. 3. These ruins are very visible a league north from Hellah, which is an Arab town, built on the west side... | |
| Sarah Trimmer - 1830 - 304 pages
...GENESIS, CHAP. xi. 3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. And they said, Go to, let us build a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us... | |
| 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...had 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.... | |
| John Murray - 1831 - 324 pages
...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 mortar. And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let... | |
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