Genesis 11:7
Go to, let us go down, and confound there 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 they shall have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the heaven, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
Genesis 10:5From these were separated the isles of the nations 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 from these were the nations separated on the earth after the flood.
Genesis 42:23And they knew not that Joseph understood them; for he spoke unto them by an interpreter.
Job 5:12[But] who frustrateth the plans of the crafty, so that their hands cannot execute their well-devised counsel;
Psalms 2:4He who dwelleth in the heavens will laugh: the Lord will hold 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 →