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"Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@ingr.com> writes:
> Note that the oldest extant manuscript to have the
> word "Elohim" in it is a land transfer deed.
>
> From: jcowan@reutershealth.com [mailto:jcowan@reutershealth.com]
>
> The text says otherwise: the Tower was destroyed because of God's concern
> that unified mankind might be able to unite imagination and action:
> "nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do."
> (Gen. 11:6)
As long as we're on textual technicalities, the word in the Hebrew
original is "yazam", which means to take initiative or to enterprise,
not imagine.
Ari.
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