Genesis 11:7
Come ye, therefore, let us go down, and there may not understand one another's speech.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
8And so the Lord scattered them from that place into all 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 have dominion over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and the beasts, and the whole earth, and every creeping creature that moveth upon the earth.
Genesis 10:5By these were divided the islands of the Gentiles in their lands, every one according to his tongue and their families in their nations.
Genesis 10:32These are the families of Noe, according to their peoples and nations. By these were the nations divided on the earth after the flood.
Genesis 42:23And they knew not that Joseph understood, because he spoke to them by an interpreter.
Job 5:12Who bringeth to nought the designs of the malignant, so that their hands cannot accomplish what they had begun:
Psalms 2:4He that dwelleth in heaven shall laugh at them: and the Lord shall deride 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 →