Genesis 11:7
Therefore, come, let us descend, and in that place confound their tongue, so that they may not listen, each one to the voice of his neighbor.”
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8And so the Lord divided them from that place into all the lands, and they ceased to build the city.
Cross References
Genesis 1:26And he said: “Let us make Man to our image and likeness. And let him rule over the fish of the sea, and the flying creatures of the air, and the wild beasts, and the entire earth, and every animal that moves on the earth.”
Genesis 10:5The islands of the Gentiles were divided by these into their regions, each one according to his tongue, and their families in their nations.
Genesis 10:32These are the families of Noah, according to their peoples and nations. The nations became divided according to these, on the earth after the great flood.
Genesis 42:23But they did not know that Joseph understood, because he was speaking to them through an interpreter.
Job 5:12He dispels the thoughts of the spiteful, lest their hands be able to complete what they had begun.
Psalms 2:4He who dwells in heaven will ridicule them, and the Lord will mock 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 →