Genesis 11:6
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.
KJV
et dixit : Ecce, unus est populus, et unum labium omnibus : cœperuntque hoc facere, nec desistent a cogitationibus suis, donec eas opere compleant.
Vulgate
καὶ εἶπεν Κύριος Ἰδοὺ γένος ἓν καὶ χεῖλος ἓν πάντων· καὶ τοῦτο ἤρξαντο ποιῆσαι, καὶ νῦν οὐκ ἐκλείψει ἐξ αὐτῶν πάντα ὅσα ἂν ἐπιθῶνται ποιῆσαι.
LXX
And Jehovah said, Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is what they begin to do: and now nothing will be withholden from them, which they purpose to do.
ASV
וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר יְהוָ֗ה הֵ֣ן עַ֤ם אֶחָד֙ וְ/שָׂפָ֤ה אַחַת֙ לְ/כֻלָּ֔/ם וְ/זֶ֖ה הַחִלָּ֣/ם לַ/עֲשׂ֑וֹת וְ/עַתָּה֙ לֹֽא יִבָּצֵ֣ר מֵ/הֶ֔ם כֹּ֛ל אֲשֶׁ֥ר יָזְמ֖וּ לַֽ/עֲשֽׂוֹת
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
15 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
Historic Christian voices
5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§57This state of division into many nations, each entrusted by divine providence to the guardianship of angels, is at once cosmic, social and religious. It is intended to limit the pride of fallen humanity10 united only in its perverse ambition to forge its own unity as at Babel.11 But, because of sin, both polytheism and the idolatry of the nation and of its rulers constantly thr…
Chapter 6.—What We are to Understand by God’s Speaking to the Angels. We might have supposed that the words uttered at the creation of man, “Let us,” and not Let me, “make man,” were addressed to the angels, had He not added “in our image;” but as we cannot believe that man was made in the image of angels, or that the image of God is the same as that of angels, it is proper to …
Cross-references
- Acts 2:3 — And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them.
- Eccl 11:9 — Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things
- Gen 3:22 — And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:
- Gen 3:22 — And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:
- Gen 6:5 — And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
- Gen 8:21 — And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake; for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will
- Gen 9:19 — These are the three sons of Noah: and of them was the whole earth overspread.
- Gen 11:1 — And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.
- Hab 2:13 — Behold, is it not of the LORD of hosts that the people shall labour in the very fire, and the people shall weary themselves for very vanity?
- John 1:10 — He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.
- Luke 1:51 — He hath shewed strength with his arm; he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.
- Ps 2:1 — Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?