A13203:117
[The Pentateuch]
printed by Hans Luft i.e. Johan Hoochstraten, 1530
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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
¶ The .xi. chapter.
And all the world was of one tongue and one language. And as they came from the east / they found a plain ⟨image 22⟩in the land of Shinar / and there they dwelled. And they said one to another: come on / let us make brick and burn it with fire. So brick was there stone and slime was there mortar And they said: Come on / let us build us a city and a tour / that the top may reach unto heaven. And let us make us a name / for peradventure we shall be scattered abroad over all the earth.
ANd all the world was of one tonge and one language. And as they came from the east / they founde a playne ⟨image 22⟩in the lande of Synear / and there they dwelled. And they sayd one to another: come on / let us make brycke ād burne it wyth fyre. So brycke was there stone and slyme was there morter And they sayd: Come on / let vs buylde vs a cyte and a toure / that the toppe may reach vnto heauen. And let vs make us a name / for perauenture we shall be scatered abrode over all the erth.
And the LORD came down to see the city and the tour which the children of Anā had builded. And the LORD said: See / the people is one and have one tongue among them all. And this have they begun to do / and will not leave of from all that they have purposed to do. Come on / let us descend and mingle their tongue even there / that one understand not what another sayeth. Thus y• LORD scattered them from thence upon all the earth. And they left of to build the city. Wherefore the name of it is called Babel / because that the LORD there confounded the tongue of all the world. And because that the LORD from thence / scattered them abroad upon all the earth.