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Tyndale Open Study Notes on Genesis 11:7

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Tyndale Open Study Notes
Tyndale House Publishers · Modern study notes
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11:7 Come, let’s go down: God addresses his angelic court (see 1:26; 3:22; and study notes). • won’t be able to understand each other: Their inability to communicate would curtail their unified sinful ambition. The God-honoring unity of language on the day of Pentecost was a symbolic reversal of the Babel dispersion (Acts 2:5-13; see Zeph 3:9).
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