Bible Compass
Log inGet started
Back to the chapter

Genesis 11:8

Judgment

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.

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

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.

10 These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:

Read the whole chapter

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.

Compare

BSB
So the LORD scattered them from there over the face of all the earth, and they stopped building the city.
KJV
So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
WEB
So the LORD scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city.
ASV
So Jehovah scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off building the city.
DARBY
And Jehovah scattered them thence over the face of the whole earth. And they left off building the city.
BLB
And YHWH scattered them from there over the face of all the earth, and they ceased to build the city.
ÅB
Så spredte Herren dem derfra over hele jorden, og de holdt opp med å bygge på byen.
OTB
Så spredte Herren dem derfra over hele jordens overflate, og de sluttet å bygge byen.
B1930
Så spredte Herren dem derfra over hele jorden, og de holdt op med å bygge på byen.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Luke 1:51

    He hath shewed strength with his arm; he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.

    Read in context

  • Genesis 10:32

    These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.

    Read in context

  • Genesis 10:25

    And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother’s name was Joktan.

    Read in context

  • Deuteronomy 32:8

    When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.

    Read in context

  • Genesis 11:4

    And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.

    Read in context

  • Genesis 11:9

    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.

    Read in context

  • Genesis 49:7

    Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.

    Read in context