Genesis 11:7
Come, let Us go down, and there confuse their sefat, that they may not understand one anotherʼs language.
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Genesis 1:26And G-d said, Let Us make man in Our tzelem, after Our demut: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon ha'aretz (the earth). 1
Genesis 10:5By these were the coastlands of the Goyim divided in their lands; every one after his leshon, after their mishpechot, in their Goyim.
Genesis 10:32These are the mishpechot of the Bnei Noach, after their toldot, in their Goyim; and by these were the Goyim divided/separated in ha'aretz after the mabbul.
Genesis 42:23And they had no da'as that Yosef understood them; for he spoke unto them by the melitz (go-between, interpreter).
Job 5:12Thwarting the machshevot of the arumim (crafty ones), 1 so that their hands cannot accomplish tushiyyah (success). 1
Psalms 2:4He that sitteth enthroned in Shomayim laughs; 1 Adonoi hath them in derision. 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 →