Study it in the app“And YHWH said, “Look, they are one people, and they all have one language, and this is what they have begun to do; and now nothing that they plan to do will be out of reach for them.”
And YHWHוַ יְהוָהsaid,יֹּאמֶר“Look,הֵןthey are oneאֶחָדpeople,עַםandוְthey allלְכֻלָּםhave oneאַחַתlanguage,שָׂפָהand thisוְזֶהis what they have begunהַחִלָּםto do;לַעֲשׂוֹתand nowוְעַתָּהnothingלֹא כֹּלthatאֲשֶׁרthey planיָזְמוּto doלַעֲשׂוֹתwill be out of reachיִבָּצֵרfor them.מֵהֶם
YHWH
The personal name of the God of Israel, written in Hebrew with four letters, Y-H-W-H, without vowels. Out of reverence Jews stopped pronouncing it and read "Adonai" (Lord), so many Bibles put "the LORD" or "Jehovah". This translation keeps the four letters. The name is related to the verb "to be" (Exodus 3:14-15). He is not a god other than Elohim: "YHWH Elohim" is the same Creator God, called by his name.
Where else “yehva” appearssay
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “yomer” appearsone
The number one; just one and no more.
Where else “echad” appearscrowd
The people gathered in a place: the crowd, or the troops that go out to war.
Where else “am” appearslanguage
The tongue proper to a people, the language it speaks.
Where else “safa” appearsbegin
To start doing something.
Where else “hachila” appearsdo
To carry out an act or to deal with someone in a certain way, for good or ill.
Where else “asot” appearsresolve
To make up one's mind.
Where else “yazmu” appearsbe beyond reach
To be past someone's power.
Where else “yibatser” appears5YHWH came down to see the city and the tower that the human beings had built.
6 · This verse (above)
7Come, let us go down and confuse their language there, so that no one will understand the language of his neighbor.”
1. What it says
What did the people in the land of Shinar say as they built their city and tower (vv. 3-4)?
2. What it means
Why did YHWH confuse their language and scatter them over the whole earth (vv. 6-9)?
3. How I live it
In what you are planning, what is for making a name for yourself, and what is for serving others?
