The Tower Of Babel

The whole earth was of one language and of one speech. — read the full passage →

The whole earth was of one language and of one speech. — read the full passage →

They said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let’s make ourselves a name, lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth.”

The whole earth was of one language and of one speech.

For then I will purify the lips of the peoples, that they may all call on Yahweh’s name, to serve him shoulder to shoulder.

Yahweh said, “Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do.

God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.

Of these were the islands of the nations divided in their lands, everyone after his language, after their families, in their nations.

Now this is the history of the generations of the sons of Noah and of Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to them after the flood. — read the full passage →

Moreover Yahweh answered Job, — read the full passage →

When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the children of men, he set the bounds of the peoples according to the number of the children of Israel.

The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

Therefore its name was called Babel, because there Yahweh confused the language of all the earth. From there, Yahweh scattered them abroad on the surface of all the earth.

When men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them, — read the full passage →

Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.

God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

A reed like a rod was given to me. Someone said, “Rise, and measure God’s temple, and the altar, and those who worship in it.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →

Where are we going up? Our brothers have made our heart melt, saying, ‘The people are greater and taller than we. The cities are great and fortified up to the sky. Moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there!’”

So Yahweh scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city. — read the full passage →

So Yahweh scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city.

Come, let’s go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”

For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

who in the generations gone by allowed all the nations to walk in their own ways.

Yahweh was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart.

They said one to another, “Come, let’s make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.

As they traveled east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they lived there.

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons, and the boundaries of their dwellings,

Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built. — read the full passage →

God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. — read the full passage →

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. — read the full passage →