Genesis 11:7
Come! And we are climbing down, and we are overflowing the boundary/lip of themselves there, of which they are not hearing each man the boundary/lip of the friend of himself!"
Come, we will come down and mix their lip that they shall not hear a man the lip of his neighbor.
Come, let Us go down and confuse their language so that they cannot understand one another's speech.
Come, let us go down and there confuse their language, so that they may not understand one another’s speech.”
Come, and having gone down let us there confound their tongue, that they may not understand each the voice of his neighbor.
Footnotes
| 437 | Tower of Two-Rivers Hebrew נבלה from Strong's #5034 נבל to fade, wither away, become stupid. The word tower is a prophetic reference to political power (Compare Song 4:4, 7:5 and Isa. 9:6). The white-washed mud bricks made of hay and stubble (1 Cor. 3:12) were exchanged for stone and mortar. Yahweh tells Ezekiel to make a statement to this effect by inscribing a picture of Jerusalem on a chunk of white brick:
“And you, Son of Man, take to-yourself a white-brick, and you have set herself to the faces of yourself, and have graven upon her a city – Jerusalem” Ezekiel 4:1 literal “who are provoking me to anger, To My faces continually, Sacrificing in the Enclosures, and making perfume on the white-bricks” Isa. 65:3 literal The whole city is white-washed in hypocrisy. |
