{"id":6669,"date":"2023-01-13T05:32:16","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T05:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/?p=6669"},"modified":"2023-01-13T05:34:50","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T05:34:50","slug":"come-let-us-go-down-and-there-confuse-their-language-genesis-117","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/come-let-us-go-down-and-there-confuse-their-language-genesis-117\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cCome, let Us go down and there confuse their language\u201d (Genesis 11:7)"},"content":{"rendered":"<section  class='av_textblock_section av-lcu2vd2s-d5ca993e5a1f56cebf23dfda40422e2b '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u201cCome,\u00a0let Us go down and there\u00a0confuse their language\u201d (Genesis 11:7)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>January 13, 2023 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Now the whole earth had one language and one\u00a0speech.\u00a0And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land\u00a0of Shinar, and they dwelt there.\u00a0Then they said to one another, \u201cCome, let us make bricks and\u00a0bake\u00a0them\u00a0thoroughly.\u201d They had brick for stone, and they had asphalt for mortar.\u00a0And they said, \u201cCome, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower\u00a0whose top\u00a0is\u00a0in the heavens; let us make a\u00a0name for ourselves, lest we\u00a0be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But the\u00a0Lord\u00a0came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built.\u00a0<strong><sup>\u00a0<\/sup><\/strong>And the\u00a0Lord\u00a0said, \u201cIndeed\u00a0the people\u00a0are\u00a0one and they all have\u00a0one language, and this is what they begin to do; now nothing that they\u00a0propose to do will be withheld from them.\u00a0<strong><sup>\u00a0<\/sup><\/strong>Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another\u2019s speech.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they ceased building the city. Therefore, its name is called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth; and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth. (Genesis 11:1-9)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The day which God scattered the of tower of babel is celebrated in Our Holy Church every year on Tir 7 (January 15). Happy Holiday to all Orthodox Tewahedo Christians!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">May Holy Trinity bestow us His mercy, peace and Love, Amen!<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The day which God scattered the of tower of babel is celebrated in Our Holy Church every year on Tir 7 (January 15).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6670,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feasts","category-holy-scriptures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6669"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6669"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6672,"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6669\/revisions\/6672"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}