Genesis 11:9

Therefore is the shem of it called Bavel; because Hashem did there confuse the language of kol Ha'Aretz; and from there did Hashem scatter them abroad upon the face of kol Ha'Aretz.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

In Context

8So Hashem scattered them abroad from there upon the face of kol Ha'Aretz; and they left off building the Ir.

10These are the toldot of Shem: Shem was a hundred years old, and fathered Arpachshad two years after the mabbul;

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Cross References

Genesis 10:10And the beginning of his kingdom was Bavel, and Erech, and Akkad, and Calneh, in Eretz Shinar.

Genesis 10:25And unto Ever were born two banim: the shem of one was Peleg; for in his days was ha'aretz divided; and his brotherʼs shem was Yoktan.

Isaiah 13:1The massa (burden) of Bavel (Babylon), which Yeshayah Ben Amotz did see. 1

Acts 17:26And Hashem made from one ancestor every nation of anashim dwelling pnei kol haAretz. And Hashem has set the zmanim and the fixed boundaries of their habitations, + 17:26 Dt 32:8; Job 12:23

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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