Genesis 11:7
Give 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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In Context
8And YHWH scatters them from there over the face of all the earth, and they cease to build the city;
Cross References
Genesis 1:26And God says, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness, and let them rule over [the] fish of the sea, and over [the] bird of the heavens, and over livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that is creeping on the earth.”
Genesis 10:5By these the islands of the nations have been parted in their lands, each by his tongue, by their families, in their nations.
Genesis 10:32These [are] families of the sons of Noah, by their generations, in their nations, and by these the nations have been parted in the earth after the flood.
Genesis 42:23And they have not known that Joseph understands, for the interpreter [is] between them;
Job 5:12Making void thoughts of the cunning, || And their hands do not execute wisdom.
Psalms 2:4He who is sitting in the heavens laughs, || The Lord mocks at 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 →