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Genesis 11:8

And Jehovah scattered them thence over the face of the whole earth. And they left off building the city.

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.

In Context

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

9Therefore was its name called Babel; because Jehovah there confounded the language of the whole earth. And Jehovah scattered them thence over the face of the whole earth.

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Cross References

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 11:9Therefore was its name called Babel; because Jehovah there confounded the language of the whole earth. And Jehovah scattered them thence over the face of the whole earth.

Deuteronomy 32:8When the Most High assigned to the nations their inheritance, When he separated the sons of Adam, He set the bounds of the peoples According to the number of the children of Israel.

Luke 1:51He has wrought strength with his arm; he has scattered haughty [ones] in the thought of their heart.

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 →

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