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Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the sky,[a] and so make a name for ourselves; otherwise we shall be scattered all over the earth.”

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  1. 11:4 Tower with its top in the sky: possibly a reference to the chief ziggurat of Babylon, E-sag-ila, lit., “the house that raises high its head.”

Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens,(A) so that we may make a name(B) for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered(C) over the face of the whole earth.”(D)

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