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7Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
Genesis 11:7 —
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Commentary
Matthew Henry
(vv. 5-9)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 cognizance God took of the design that was on foot: The Lord came down to see the city , Gen. 11:5. It is an expression after the manner of men; he knew it as clearly and fully as men know that which they come...
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