Genesis 11:7

Come, let us go down there and confuse their language, so that they do not understand each other’s speech.”

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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

6he said, “See, they are one people and all have one language. This is only the beginning of their activity, and now nothing that they propose to do will seem too difficult for them.

8So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth; and they ceased building the city.

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Cross References

Genesis 1:26Then God said, “Let us make humans who are images of us, who are like us. Let them rule over the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the cattle, the whole earth, and all the reptiles that crawl upon the ground.”

Genesis 10:5From the descendants of these were the peoples of the coasts and islands divided in their lands, each with its own language, 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 42:23They did not know, however, that Joseph understood them, for he had spoken to them through an interpreter.

Psalms 2:4He whose throne is in heaven laughs, the Lord mocks 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 →

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