Genesis 11:7
Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand each other's speech.
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Genesis 1:26And 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 birds of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that
Genesis 10:5From these were the islands of the nations divided in their lands, every man according to his tongue, according to their families, in their nations.
Genesis 10:32These are the families of the sons of Noah, according to their generations, in their nations. And from these the nations were divided on the earth after the flood.
Genesis 42:23And they did not know that Joseph understood them, for there was an interpreter between them.
Job 5:12He frustrates the devices of the crafty so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
Psalms 2:4He who sits in the heavens will laugh. LORD will have them in derision.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 11:6-10
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. 7 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… Read the whole commentary →