Genesis 11:7
Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another'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 fowl of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over the whole earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth on the earth.
Genesis 10:5From these came the distribution of the isles of the nations, according to their lands, every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.
Genesis 10:32These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations. And from these came the distribution of the nations on the earth after the flood.
Genesis 42:23And they did not know that Joseph understood, for the interpreter was between them.
Job 5:12He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, and their hands carry not out the enterprise.
Psalms 2:4He that dwelleth in the heavens shall laugh, the Lord shall 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 →