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21 And they built it: forty and
three years were they building
Estimated it; its breadth was 203 bricks,
2,484 m
(8,150 ft), and the height (of a brick) was
about three the third of one; its height
times the
height of Burj amounted to 5433 cubits and
Khalifa, or
roughly 1.6 2 palms, and (the extent of
miles high.
We think one wall was) thirteen stades
we have
advanced (and of the other thirty stades).
yet still are
unable to 22 And Yahuah our Elohim
rebuild the
ark nor this said unto us: “Behold, they
Tower in this
age. No one are one people, and (this) they
will find it in begin to do, and now nothing
archaeology
as it was will be withholden from them.
destroyed by
Yahuah. Go to, let us go down and
Cf. confound their language, that
Gn. 11:6 f
they may not understand one
another’s speech, and they
may be dispersed into cities
and nations, and one purpose
will no longer abide with them
till the day of judgment.”
23 And Yahuah descended,
and we descended with Him
to see the city and the tower
which the children of men had
built. 24 And He confounded
their language, and they
no longer understood one
another’s speech, and they
ceased then to build the city
and the tower. 25 For this
reason the whole land of
Shinar is called Babel, because
Cf. Yahuah did there confound all
Gn. 11:9
the language of the children
of men, and from thence
they were dispersed into their
cities, each according to his
1645-1688
A.M.
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M A N K I N D
language and his nation.
26 And Yahuah sent a mighty
wind against the tower and
overthrew it upon the earth, A play on the
and behold it was between preceding
verb (“
“).
Asshur and Babylon in the overthrew
But its real
was
land of Shinar, and they called name
Babel.
its name “Overthrow.” 27 In
the fourth week in the first year 1688 A.M.
in the beginning thereof in the
four and thirtieth jubilee, were
they dispersed from the land
of Shinar.
The Children Of Noah
Enter Their Districts
Canaan Seizes Palestine
Wrongfully; Madai Takes
Media (10:28-36)
See Ch. 8
Commentary.
Ham
inherited the
“hot” lands
Southern
Hemisphere.
This is
accurate
and not
North. Even
North Africa
is South
of Shinar
and Ham
inherited all
of it.
28 And Ham and his sons went
into the land which he was to
occupy, which he acquired as
i. e. West
his portion in the land of the Africa
(his true
south. 29 And Canaan saw inheritance).
In ancient
the land of Lebanon to the times that
called
river of Egypt that it was very isEthiopia
is
good, and he went not into the which
coast to
of
land of his inheritance to the coast
Central
west (that is to) the sea, and he Africa.
dwelt in the land of Lebanon, Canaan
wrongfully
eastward and westward from seized
Palestine,
the border of Jordan and from which
belonged
the border of the sea. 30 And by right to
Arpachshad.
Ham, his father, and Cush and It was the
Promised
Mizraim, his brothers, said Land to
Shem long
unto him: “Thou hast settled before it was
to
in a land which. is not thine, restored
Abraham’s
descendants.
and which did not fall
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