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The Classical Journal, Volume 24

1821 - 468 pages
...whole earth. And the Lord came down to see the city, and the tower which the children of men built. And the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all tire earth, and they left off to build the city." They found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they...
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The Presbyterian Magazine, Volume 2

1822 - 554 pages
...which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that thev may not understand one another's speech. So the Lord...the city. Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth : and from thence did the Lord scatter...
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The history of the Fairchild family; or, The child's manual

Mary Martha Sherwood - 1822 - 326 pages
...them which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go clown, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. So the...scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of the whole earth, and they left off to build the city : therefore is the name of it called Babel; because...
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An analysis of Christianity; exhibiting a connected view of the scriptures ...

Whitlock Nicol - 1823 - 356 pages
...scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth P ." And " the Lord confounded their language, and scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of...the city ; therefore is the name of it called Babel" [that is, Confusion**]. Of the Babylon which was afterward erected on this spot, it is said, " Her...
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Sermons on Various Subjects of Christian Doctrine and Duty, Volume 5

Nathanael Emmons - 1825 - 462 pages
...them, which they have imagined to do.— Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. So the...abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth." In the first verse in this account it is said, the whole earth was of one language ; and that as they...
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The theology of the early patriarchs, illustrated by an appeal to ..., Volume 2

Thomas Tregenna Biddulph - 1825 - 480 pages
...that they may not understand one another's speech (Heb. lip). So the Lord scattered them abroad upon the face of all the earth; and they left off to build...the city. Therefore is the name of it called Babel, (marg. that is confusion) because the Lord did there confound the language (Heb. lip) of all the earth:...
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Questions and answers and prophecies of the Old Testament, as illustrated ...

William Henry Turner - 1825 - 172 pages
...Q. What was the immediate consequence of this confusion of human languages? A. They were scattered abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth; and they left off to build the city.—v. 8. CHAPTER XII.—SECTION 2. A. Abraham, the son of Terah, descended from Shem. Q. Who is...
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Elements of Christian theology, Volume 1

sir George Pretyman Tomline (bart, bp. of Winchester.) - 1826 - 576 pages
...language of those who were engaged in it, so that they did not understand one another's speech; and the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the...all the earth, and they left off to build the city (s). Therefore is the name of it called Babel (t), because the Lord did there confound the language...
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The progress of fashion, a series of letters to a friend

Progress - 1826 - 570 pages
...would not be restrained from what they imagined to do; so, after the confusion of their language, " he scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth." How often do we feel the inconvenience of the means by which their dispersion was effected. That difference...
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Anti-Scepticism; or; An Inquiry into the Nature and Philosophy of Language

James Wright - 1827 - 146 pages
...them which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. So the...the city: therefore is the name of it called Babel (ie confusion) because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did...
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