Genesis 11:7

Come, let Us go down and confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.”

Berean Standard Bible

In The King James Version

Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.

In Context

6And the LORD said, “If they have begun to do this as one people speaking the same language, then nothing they devise will be beyond them.

8So the LORD scattered them from there over the face of all the earth, and they stopped building the city.

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Cross References

Genesis 1:26Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness, to rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, and over all the earth itself and every creature that crawls upon it.”

Genesis 10:5From these, the maritime peoples separated into their territories, according to their languages, by clans within their nations.

Genesis 10:32All these are the clans of Noah’s sons, according to their generations and nations. From these the nations of the earth spread out after the flood.

Genesis 42:23They did not realize that Joseph understood them, since there was an interpreter between them.

Job 5:12He thwarts the schemes of the crafty, so that their hands find no success.

Psalms 2:4The One enthroned in heaven laughs; the Lord taunts 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 →

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