Holy Scripture

Genesis 11:5

A church father on this verse
“And they arose and came from the land of the east; and, as they went through the land, they chanced upon the land of Shinar, which was exceeding broad; where they took in hand to build a tower. They sought means thereby to go up to heaven, and be able to leave their work as a memorial to those men who should come afte…”
Irenaeus, 3th c. — The Demonstration of the Apostolic Preaching

Source: Septuagint

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5And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the sons of men built.

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3And a man said to his neighbor, Come, let us make bricks and bake them with fire. And the brick was to them for stone, and their mortar was bitumen.

4And they said, Come, let us build to ourselves a city and tower, whose top shall be to heaven, and let us make to ourselves a name, before we are scattered abroad upon the face of all the earth.

— Genesis 11:5 —

6And the Lord said, Behold, there is one race, and one lip of all, and they have begun to do this, and now nothing shall fail from them of all that they may have undertaken to do.

7Come, and having gone down let us there confound their tongue, that they may not understand each the voice of his neighbor.

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