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Introduction
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Early Modern English
1B. |
And the whole earth was of one language, and of one
speech. |
2B. |
And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east,
that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. |
3B. |
And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick,
and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime
had they for mortar. |
4B. |
And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a
tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name,
lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. |
5B. |
And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower,
which the children of men builded. |
6B. |
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. |
7B. |
Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language,
that they may not understand one anothers speech. |
8B. |
So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the
face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. |
9B. |
Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the
Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence
did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth. |
:B. |
From the King James' Version (also
known as the Authorized Version) of the Bible. First published
in 1611. |
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