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Genesis 11:7

Come, and having gone down let us there confound their tongue, that they may not understand each the voice of his neighbor.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.

In Context

6And the Lord said, Behold, there is one race, and one lip of all, and they have begun to do this, and now nothing shall fail from them of all that they may have undertaken to do.

8And the Lord scattered them thence over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city and the tower.

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Cross References

Genesis 1:26And God said, Let us make man according to our image and likeness, and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the flying creatures of heaven, and over the cattle and all the earth, and over all the reptiles that creep on the earth.

Genesis 10:5From these were the islands of the Gentiles divided in their land, each according to his tongue, in their tribes and in their nations.

Genesis 10:32These are the tribes of the sons of Noah, according to their generations, according to their nations: of them were the islands of the Gentiles scattered over the earth after the flood.

Genesis 42:23But they knew not that Joseph understood them; for there was an interpreter between them.

Job 5:12Frustrating the counsels of the crafty, 1 And their hands shall not perform the truth: 1

Psalms 2:4He that dwells in the heavens shall laugh them to scorn, 1 And the Lord shall mock them. 1

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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