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19: 1-3 8 GENESIS
stock” the whole earth with progeny. But the rebe
race took the opposite course: they concentrated on
plain in Shinar and presumed to build a city and a tower
-a tower whose top would reach “unto heaven”-making
it necessary for God to confound their speech and thus
scatter them abroad: Gen. 11 : 1-9. Concentration of
population invariably breeds vice, crime, violence, and
strife of every kind.)
2. The Violeizce of the Sodomites (vv. 4-11)
4 But before they luy down, the men of the city,
even the men of Sodm, compussed the home round, both
young and old, all the people from every quurter; 5 and
they culled unto Lot, und suid unto him, Where ure the
&en thut cmne in to thee this night? bring them out unto
us, thut we may know them. 6 And Lot went aut unto
them to the door, und shut the door after him. 7 And he
suid, I pray you, my brethren, do not so wickedly. 8 Be-
I have two daughters thut hwe not knowlz mun;
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