Genesis 11:6

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Summary

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.

Behold

The people

Genesis 11:1

Genesis 9:19

Acts 17:26

Imagined

Bible References

Behold

And the Lord God said, "Now that the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil, he must not be allowed to stretch out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever."

Go and cry for help to the gods you have chosen! Let them deliver you from trouble!"

At noon Elijah mocked them, "Yell louder! After all, he is a god; he may be deep in thought, or perhaps he stepped out for a moment or has taken a trip. Perhaps he is sleeping and needs to be awakened."

Rejoice, young man, while you are young, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth. Follow the impulses of your heart and the desires of your eyes, but know that God will judge your motives and actions.

The people

The whole earth had a common language and a common vocabulary.

These were the sons of Noah, and from them the whole earth was populated.

From one man he made every nation of the human race to inhabit the entire earth, determining their set times and the fixed limits of the places where they would live,

Imagined

But the Lord saw that the wickedness of humankind had become great on the earth. Every inclination of the thoughts of their minds was only evil all the time.

And the Lord smelled the soothing aroma and said to himself, "I will never again curse the ground because of humankind, even though the inclination of their minds is evil from childhood on. I will never again destroy everything that lives, as I have just done.

Why do the nations rebel? Why are the countries devising plots that will fail?

He has demonstrated power with his arm; he has scattered those whose pride wells up from the sheer arrogance of their hearts.