Genesis 11:7
Come, let us go down and take away the sense of their language, so that they will not be able to make themselves clear to one another.
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8So the Lord God sent them away into every part of the earth: and they gave up building their town.
Cross References
Genesis 1:26And God said, Let us make man in our image, like us: and let him have rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over the cattle and over all the earth and over every living thing which goes flat on the earth.
Genesis 10:5From these came the nations of the sea-lands, with their different families and languages.
Genesis 10:32These are the families of the sons of Noah, in the order of their generations and their nations: from these came all the nations of the earth after the great flow of waters.
Genesis 42:23They were not conscious that the sense of their words was clear to Joseph, for he had been talking to them through one who had knowledge of their language.
Job 5:12Who makes the designs of the wise go wrong, so that they are unable to give effect to their purposes.
Psalms 2:4Then he whose seat is in the heavens will be laughing: the Lord will make sport of them.
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 →