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Genesis 11:7

Judgment

5 Then the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the sons of men were building.

6 And the LORD said, “If they have begun to do this as one people speaking the same language, then nothing they devise will be beyond them.

Come, let Us go down and confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.”

8 So the LORD scattered them from there over the face of all the earth, and they stopped building the city.

9 That is why it is called Babel, for there the LORD confused the language of the whole world, and from that place the LORD scattered them over the face of all the earth.

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Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
Come, let Us go down and confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.”
KJV
Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.
WEB
Come, let’s go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”
ASV
Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another`s speech.
DARBY
Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
BLB
Come, let Us go down there and confuse their language, so that one man may not understand the language of his companion.”
ÅB
La oss da stige ned der og forvirre deres tungemål, så den ene ikke forstår den andres tungemål!
OTB
Kom, la oss gå ned og forvirre språket deres så de ikke forstår hverandres tale.”
B1930
La oss da stige ned der og forvirre deres tungemål, så den ene ikke forstår den andres tungemål!

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Psalms 33:10

    The LORD frustrates the plans of the nations; He thwarts the devices of the peoples.

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  • Job 5:12–13

    He thwarts the schemes of the crafty, so that their hands find no success.

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  • Genesis 1:26

    Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness, to rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, and over all the earth itself and every creature that crawls upon it.”

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  • Psalms 55:9

    O Lord, confuse and confound their speech, for I see violence and strife in the city.

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  • 1 Corinthians 14:2–11

    For he who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men, but to God. Indeed, no one understands him; he utters mysteries in the Spirit.

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  • Genesis 42:23

    They did not realize that Joseph understood them, since there was an interpreter between them.

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  • 1 Corinthians 14:23

    So if the whole church comes together and everyone speaks in tongues, and some who are uninstructed or some unbelievers come in, will they not say that you are out of your minds?

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  • Acts 2:4–11

    And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them.

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