Genesis 11:6

and YHWH says, “Behold, the people [is] one, and one language [is] to them all, and this it has dreamed of doing; and now, nothing is restrained from them of that which they have purposed to do.

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

5And YHWH comes down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men have built;

7Give help, let us go down there and confuse their language, so that a man will not understand the language of his companion.”

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Cross References

Genesis 6:5And YHWH sees that the wickedness of man [is] abundant in the earth, and every imagination of the thoughts of his heart [is] only evil every day;

Genesis 9:19These three [are] sons of Noah, and from these has all the earth been overspread.

Judges 10:14Go and cry to the gods on which you have fixed; they save you in the time of your tribulation.”

Psalms 2:1Why have nations assembled tumultuously? And peoples meditate vanity?

Luke 1:51He did powerfully with His arm, || He scattered abroad the proud in the thought of their heart,

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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