Genesis 11:6
And he said: Behold, it is one people, and all have one tongue: and they have begun to do this, neither will they leave off from their designs, till they accomplish them in deed.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
5And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of Adam were building.
7Come ye, therefore, let us go down, and there may not understand one another's speech.
Cross References
Genesis 6:5And God seeing that the wickedness of men was great on the earth, and that all the thought of their heart was bent upon evil at all times,
Genesis 9:19These three are the sons of Noe: and from these was all mankind spread over the whole earth.
Judges 10:14Go and call upon the gods which you have chosen: let them deliver you in the time of distress.
Psalms 2:1Why have the Gentiles raged, and the people devised vain things?
Luke 1:51He hath shewed might in his arm: he hath scattered the proud in the conceit 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 →