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NASB | Genesis 11:1 Now the whole earth used the same language and the same words. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Genesis 11:1 Now the whole earth spoke one language and used the same words (vocabulary). |
Bible Question: In Genesis we read in chp. 2:19-20 the first words of Adam in naming the animals...what was the language he used for communication? Later he and Eve spoke...what language did they speak? |
Bible Answer: The following commentary on Genesis 11:1 is from Adam Clarke's Commentary On The Holy Bible. 1. "The whole earth was of one language." The "whole earth" - all mankind - "was of one language," in all liklihood the Hebrew; "and of one speech" - articulating the same words in the same way. It is generally supposed that, after the confusion mentioned in this chapter, the Hebrew language remained in the family of Heber. The proper names and their significations given in the Scripture seem incontestable evidences that the Hebrew language was the original language of the earth - the language in which God spake to man, and in which He gave the revelation of His will to Moses and the prophets." 2. In vs. 1, the words "language" and "speech" translated from the Hebrew means, "lip" and "words". 3. Thus, Adam and Eve must have spoken the Hebrew language. Adam thus used the Hebrew language to name the animals. Mike |