Babel and Zion.
1. Confusion, division, dispersion.
2. Gathering the dispersed, uniting the divided, restoring order to the confused.—W.
§6. THE GENERATIONS OF SHEM (Genesis 11:10-26).
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Genesis 11:7
Genesis 11:7
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