Genesis 11:7
We need to go down and mix up their language and make it confused so they won't be able to understand what they're saying to one other.”
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Genesis 1:26God said, “Let us make human beings in our image who are like us. They will have authority over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, and over the whole of the earth and every creature that moves on it.”
Genesis 10:5The descendants of these ancestors spread throughout the coastal areas, each group having their own language, with their families developing into different nations.
Genesis 10:32These were all the tribes descended from Noah's sons, according to their genealogies and national groups. From these ancestors the different nations of the earth spread around the world after the flood.
Genesis 42:23They didn't realize that Joseph understood what they were saying because they were talking to him through an interpreter.
Job 5:12He frustrates the plans of the cunning so that they are unsuccessful.
Psalms 2:4But the one who sits enthroned in heaven laughs. The Lord mocks 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 →