Genesis 11:9

The town was called Babel or Babylon and those names sound like a word that means mixed up. That is where God mixed up the languages and forced everyone to leave Babylon and go to live in different places all over the world.

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In The King James Version

Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

In Context

8So God made all the people talk in different languages. They could not understand each other and so they stopped building their big town and they all moved away to different places, all over the world.

10This is the story of Shem's family. Shem was 100 years old when he had a son named Ar-fax-ad. This was 2 years after the big flood.

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Cross References

Genesis 10:10Later on, Nimrod was the boss of all the towns called Bab-y-lon, Erech, Accad and Cal-nar All these towns were in a country called Shinah, which is another name for Bab-y-lonia.

Genesis 10:25Eber had 2 sons. The first son was Peleg and his younger brother was Joktan. The name Peleg means split up. And Peleg was still alive when all the people split up into different tribes and went all over the world.

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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