Text -- Genesis 11:8 (NET)

11:8 So the Lord scattered them from there across the face of the entire earth, and they stopped building the city.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Gen 11:8

¹ tn The infinitive construct לִבְנֹת (livnot, “building”) here serves as the object of the verb “they ceased, stopped,” answering the question of what they stopped doing.