Genesis 11:6
And the LORde sayd: See the people is one and haue one tonge amonge them all. And thys haue they begon to do and wyll not leaue of from all that they haue purposed to do.
William Tyndale Bible (1525/1530)
In The King James Version
In Context
5And the LORde came downe to see the cyte and the toure which the childern of Ada had buylded.
Cross References
Genesis 6:5And whan the LORde sawe yt the wekednesse of man was encreased apon the erth and that all the ymaginacion and toughtes of his hert was only evell continually
Genesis 9:19These are the.iij. sonnes of Noe and of these was all the world overspred.
Luke 1:51He sheweth strength with his arme he scattereth them that are proude in the ymaginacion of their hertes.
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 →