Holy Scripture

Genesis 11:8

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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8And the Lord scattered them thence over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city and the tower.

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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.

— Genesis 11:8 —

9On this account its name was called Confusion, because there the Lord confounded the languages of all the earth, and thence the Lord scattered them upon the face of all the earth.

10And these are the generations of Shem: and Shem was a hundred years old when he begot Arpachshad, the second year after the flood.

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