| William Wotton - 1730 - 80 pages
...all the Earth; and they left off to build the City, therefore is the Name of it called Babel, becaufe the LORD did there confound the Language of all the Earth; and from thence did the LORD fcatter them Abroad upon the Face of all the Earth ; .Gen. xi. i,— 9. b Notum eft Labium fignificare... | |
| Henry Owen - 1773 - 328 pages
...the following verfe:—" Therefore is the name of the city called Babel" (viz. confufan) " becaufe the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord fcatter them abroad on the face of all the earth":" that is, when, God, by the confufion of their language,... | |
| John Richardson - 1778 - 514 pages
...the fame limited fenfe in that which follows : " Therefore is the name of " it called Babel, becaufe the Lord did there " confound the language of all the earth : " and from thence did the Lord fcatter them " abroad upon the face of all the earth." Now, if the Confufion of Speech was confined... | |
| Tobias Smollett - 1779 - 510 pages
...the fame limited fenfe in that which follows : " Therefore is the name of it called Babel, becaufe the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth ¡ and from thence did the Lord fcatter then abroad upon the face of all t he earth." Now, if the confufion of fpeech was confined... | |
| Universal history - 1779 - 492 pages
...language in the world, at the time of the building 'of Babel; which city was fo called, •' becaufe the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth, and from thence did fcattet them abroad upon the face of all the earth." Defcriptian ofBatil. moft we can allow, with Buxtorf... | |
| Ralph Erskine - 1796 - 530 pages
...is the land's name juftly turned to a Babel, Gen. xi. 9. " The name of it is called Babel, becaufe the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth, and from thence did the Lord fcatter them abroad up»n the face of the earth." When people's hearts and tongues are divided and... | |
| Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1805 - 446 pages
...9 tvit/ioiit attempting it any more. Therefore is the name of it called Babel, that is, confusion ; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth ; and from thence did the LORD scalier them abroad upon the face of all the earth. 10 Thcse./b//OT»/7?,,' [are] the generations ofShcin,... | |
| Jacob Bryant - 1807 - 494 pages
...their nsty, lip ; that they may not understand one another's speech. *' Therefore is the name of it called Babel ; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth. Our version is certainly in this place faulty, as I have shewn : for by saphet col haretz is not here... | |
| Jacob Bryant - 1807 - 502 pages
...their r®v, lip ; that they may not understand one another" s speech. " Therefore is the name of it called Babel ; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth. Our version is certainly in this place faulty, as I have shewn : for by saphet col haretz is not here... | |
| Jacob Bryant - 1807 - 524 pages
...lip ; that they may not understand one another's speech. " Therefore is the name of it called Bahel ; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth. Our version is certainly in this place faulty, as I have shewn : for by saphet col haretz is not here... | |
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