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Genesis 11:7

Judgment

5 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.

6 And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.

Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.

8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.

9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

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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 bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh the devices of the people of none effect.

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  • Job 5:12–13

    He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.

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  • Genesis 1:26

    And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

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  • Psalms 55:9

    Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.

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  • 1 Corinthians 14:2–11

    For he that speaketh in an unknown tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God: for no man understandeth him; howbeit in the spirit he speaketh mysteries.

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  • Genesis 42:23

    And they knew not that Joseph understood them; for he spake unto them by an interpreter.

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  • 1 Corinthians 14:23

    If therefore the whole church be come together into one place, and all speak with tongues, and there come in those that are unlearned, or unbelievers, will they not say that ye are mad?

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  • Acts 2:4–11

    And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.

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