| John Hayward - 1845 - 458 pages
...continent at the time the language was confounded at Babel, which was a partial fulfilment of the saying, ' So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth.' (Gen. 11:8.) "Moroni was then commanded to deposit this record in the earth, together with the Urim... | |
| Willard Judd - 1845 - 468 pages
...did not understand what was said. The word is used often in this sense. For examples, see Gen. 11: 8. "Let us go down and confound their language, that they may not understand, [Greek, hear] one another's speech." Gen. 42 : 23. " And they knew not that Joseph understood [Greek,... | |
| 1846 - 586 pages
...' And the whole earth was of one language and of one speech. . . . Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand...scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of the earth. . . . By these (the sons ofJaphcth) were the isles of the Gentiles ( Europe) divided in... | |
| 1846 - 644 pages
...we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth," said the impious builders of liabel. " But the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth ;" their unfinished tower has crumbled— they soon returned to the dust; and though they are held... | |
| Philip Henry Gosse - 1847 - 386 pages
...unto heaven ; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence, upon the face of all the earth. Gen. xi. 1 — 8. The family which proceeded towards the southwest, would, after skirting the wilderness... | |
| David Landsborough - 1847 - 418 pages
...we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth," said the impious builders of Babel. " But the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth;" their unfinished tower has crumbled — they soon returned to the dust; and though they are held up... | |
| 1848 - 530 pages
...various languages, are all to be accounted for, by the inscrutable decree of Omnipotence. " Let us confound their language, that they may not understand...another's speech; so the Lord scattered them abroad upon the face of all the earth," Gen. xi. 7, 8. And this was at a period, too, when the whole family... | |
| 1848 - 994 pages
...Asshur, and Aiphaxad, nod Lud, und Aram. 23 And the children of Aram; Uz, в So the LORD Hcattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth : and they left oil to build Liu- city. 0 Therefore \* the name of it called Babel, because the LoRDdid there confound... | |
| 1848 - 588 pages
...to wield profitably ; and the Lord saw it better, at that era of the world, to prevent it. " Go to, let us go down and confound their language that they may not understand one another's speech." And here it is not necessary to assume the performance of a greater miracle,... | |
| Alfred John Dunkin - 1848 - 176 pages
...the tower which the children of mi'n buildetl. And the Lord aiid, Go to , let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. So the Lurd scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth, GEN. ix. 1, j, 7, H, Hark, what... | |
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