Genesis 11:7
Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.'
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Genesis 1:26And God said: 'Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.'
Genesis 10:5Of these were the isles of the nations divided in their lands, every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.
Genesis 10:32These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations; and of these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.
Genesis 42:23And they knew not that Joseph understood them; for the interpreter was between them.
Job 5:12He frustrateth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands can perform nothing substantial.
Psalms 2:4He that sitteth in heaven laugheth, the Lord hath them in derision.
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 →