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.
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Gill's Exposition
And the Lord said,.... Not to the angels, as Aben Ezra, but rather to the Son and Spirit, or within himself:
behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; which some think is spoken…
- The Confusion of Tongues 1. נסע nāsa‛ “pluck out, break up, journey.” מקדם mı̂qedem “eastward, or on the east side” as in Gen 2:14; Gen 13:11; Isa 9:11 (12). 6. החלם hachı̂lām “their beginning”,…
Adam Clarke
The people is one, etc. - From this, as before observed, we may infer, that as the people had the same language, so they had a unity of design and sentiment. It is very likely that the original…
We have here the quashing of the project of the Babel-builders, and the turning of the counsel of those froward men headlong, that God's counsel might stand in spite of them. Here is,
I. The…
Cambridge Bible
And the Lord said The account, in this and the following verse, is evidently condensed. In Gen 11:11 Jehovah is represented as coming down on earth, in order to see more closely, and on the spot to…
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