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.
KJV
Hebrew original
Louis Segond 1910
C'est pourquoi on l'appela du nom de Babel, car c'est là que l'Eternel confondit le langage de toute la terre, et c'est de là que l'Eternel les dispersa sur la face de toute la terre.
KJV
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.
Hilarius Pictaviensis
Tractatus Super Psalmos
bis ipsis rebus ac verbis comparatæ beatitudinis gloria collocetur. .9. Lignum Christus. — In libro Genesis 11, 9 el 10, ubi plantatum a Deo paradisum legislator ostendi, omne quoque lignum specie pulchrum et (a) ad esumbonum producium esse monstravii; esse quoque et in me dio p…
Eusebius of Caesarea
Onomasticon
Σκυθοπόλεως πρὸς νότον πληοίον Σαλεὶμ καὶ τοῦ Ἰορδάνου. || Στοιχεῖον Β. 230 Ἀπὸ τῆς Γενέσεως. Βαβέλ (Gen 11, 9), Βαβυλών. ἑρμηνεύεται σύγχυσις. ἦν δὲ πόλις βασιλείας γίγαντος Νεβρώδ, ἡνίκα ἐχύθησαν αἱ γλῶσσαι τῶν τὸν πύργον ἐπινοησάντων, ὧν ἄρχοντα γεγονέναι φησὶν Ἰώσιππος τὸν Νε…
Methodius
Symposium Sive Convivium Decem Virginum
4 — 3 Plato Theaet. 150 D — 5 vgl. Gen. 1, 28 — 7 Plato Pol. X, 611 BC — 8 Psal. 136, 1. 2 — 14 vgl. Gen. 11, 9 8–S. S. 49, 5 Phot. Bibl. 237 S. 30Sb, 22—39 — 11. 14. 20 Hier. In Psal. PL 26, 1304 1 καὶ vor ὁ διαβ. < P 2 καὶ vor μέχρι < P Jh | μωσέσς Ο P 175 3 PI ψυχῆς ἔκγονον. 5…
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