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Genesis 11:6

And Hashem said, See, the Am is echad and they have all one language; and this they begin to do; and now nothing will be impossible for them, which they have proposed to do.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.

In Context

5And Hashem came down to see the Ir and the Migdal, which Bnei HaAdam built.

7Come, let Us go down, and there confuse their sefat, that they may not understand one anotherʼs language.

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Cross References

Genesis 6:5And Hashem saw that the wickedness of HaAdam was great in ha'aretz and that every yetzer (inclination) of the machshevot (thoughts) of his lev was only rah (evil) continually. + 6:5 Ro 7:18

Genesis 9:19Shloshah (Three) are the bnei Noach; and of them was the kol ha'aretz populated.

Judges 10:14Go and cry unto the elohim which ye have chosen; let them deliver you in the time of your tribulation.

Psalms 2:1Why do the Goyim rage, 1 and the Amim (peoples) imagine a vain thing? 1

Luke 1:51Hashem has done niflaot (wonders) with his zeroa (arm). + 1:51 Isa 53:1 He scattered those who in the machshavot (thoughts) of their levavot are the Gaayonim (the Haughty ones).

Matthew Henry on Genesis 11:6-10

5 And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. 6 And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. 7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. 8 So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. 9 Therefore is… Read the whole commentary →

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