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Library / Commentaries and Disputations on Genesis, Volume II

Book Sixteen — the tower of Babel and the division of tongues

SIXTH DISPUTATION. Who those were to whom Moses narrates that God spoke these words, whom God willed to be His associates in hindering the building of that tower and in confounding the tongue of those men

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SIXTH DISPUTATION. Who those were to whom Moses narrates that God spoke these words, whom God willed to be His associates in hindering the building of that tower and in confounding the tongue of those men.1

SEXTA DISPUTATIO. Qui fuerint illi quibus Deum haec verba locutum esse narrat Moses, quos Deus sibi voluerit esse socios in aedificatione illius turris impedienda et confundenda eorum hominum lingua.

Translator’s notes

  1. Liber XVI, Disputation 6 (title): to whom God said ‘let us go down and confound their tongue’ — His associates in the work. ↩