1. נסע nāsa‛ “pluck out, break up, journey.” מקדם mı̂qedem “eastward, or on the east side” as in ([Refere…

A tower, whose top may reach to heaven. —The Hebrew is far less hyperbolical: namely, whose head (or top) is in the h…

Whose top may reach unto heaven. This is a hyperbolic form of speech, in which they boastingly extol the loftiness of the structure they a…

And they said, go to, let us build us a city and a tower ,
&c.] Some Jewish writers ^F18 say, these are th…

How soon people forget the most tremendous judgments and go back to their former crimes! Though the desolations of the deluge were before their eye…