...the builders is so stated, as to leave no doubt of the symbolic meaning of the place they built : for they said, " Go to, let us build us a city, and a...whose top may reach unto heaven, and let us make us a name."f Whatever might be the nature of the historical fact here referred to, it is plain that the...

...flood. CHAP. XI. AND the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. 2 And it came to pass,as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there. 3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick...

...full and satisfactory explanation of this whole matter. There, we read, " That the whole earth was of one language and of one speech. And it came to pass as they journeyed from the east ttiat they found a plain in the land of Shinar, &c." (to the 9th v. of the xi. chap. Gen.) Critics,...

...epoch in the history of the human race. You will read audibly and slowly five verses each in rotation. "And the whole earth was of one language, and of one...land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and...

...corresponds therewith. " And the whole earth was of one lip [or language^ and of one speech, [or dialect]. And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east,...land of Shinar, and they dwelt there. And they said, Come, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top may reach into heaven; and let us make us a name,...

...be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. AND the whole earth was of one language and ol one speech. And it came to pass, as they journeyed...plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. 7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's...

...Tht Confusion of Languages. AND the whole earth was of one language, and of one speedv. 2 And it come to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they...plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there. 3 And they said one to another, Go to, let ua make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick...

...empire westward wends its way." Olympas. Where, Susan, did this migrating colony first settle? Susan. They found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there. Olympas. Tell me, Edward, where Shinar lay? Edward. It lay along the Tigris, or was a part of that...

...make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. 4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a towee£* iv hose top may reach unto heaven ; and let us make us a name, Jest we be scattered abroad...

...of Genesis, cannot be doubted. We are informed in a subsequent chapter, that " the whole earth was of one language and of one speech. And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east (or eastward) that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there — and they said...