Genesis 11:6
And he seide, Lo! the puple is oon, and o langage is to alle, and thei han bigunne to make this, nethir thei schulen ceesse of her thouytis, til thei fillen tho in werk; therfor come ye, go we doun,
Wycliffe (portions)
In The King James Version
In Context
5Forsothe the Lord cam down to se the citee and tour, which the sones of Adam bildiden.
7and scheende we there the tunge of hem, that ech man here not the voys of his neiybore.
Cross References
Genesis 6:5Sotheli God seiy that myche malice of men was in erthe, and that al the thouyt of herte was ententif to yuel in al tyme,
Genesis 9:19These thre weren the sones of Noe, and al the kynde of men was sowun of hem on al erthe.
Luke 1:51He made myyt in his arme, he scaterede proude men with the thouyte of his herte.
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 →