Genesis 11:7
ContextNETBible | Come, let’s go down and confuse 1 their language so they won’t be able to understand each other.” 2 |
XREF | Ge 1:26; Ge 3:22; Ge 10:5,20,32; Ge 11:5; Ge 42:23; De 28:49; Job 5:12,13; Job 12:20; Ps 2:4; Ps 33:10; Ps 55:9; Isa 6:8; Jer 5:15; Ac 2:4-11; 1Co 14:2-11,23 |
NET © Notes |
1 tn The cohortatives mirror the cohortatives of the people. They build to ascend the heavens; God comes down to destroy their language. God speaks here to his angelic assembly. See the notes on the word “make” in 1:26 and “know” in 3:5, as well as Jub. 10:22-23, where an angel recounts this incident and says “And the 2 tn Heb “they will not hear, a man the lip of his neighbor.” |