Genesis 11:7

Come, We will be manifest, and will confuse their language there, that a man shall not bear the language of his companion.

Targum Onkelos

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, the people are one and the language one with all of them: and this is what they begin to do. And now nothing will be restrained from them of what they imagine to do.

8And the Lord dispersed them from thence upon the face of all the earth, and they were restrained from building the city.

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Cross References

Genesis 1:26And the Lord said, Let us make Man in Our image, as Our likeness; and shall have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every reptile which moveth upon the earth.

Genesis 10:5From these were the isles ( nagvath) of the peoples divided in their lands, each according to his language, according to their families in their nations.

Genesis 10:32These are the progenies of the sons of Noach, by their generations, in their peoples: and by them were the peoples outspread in the earth after the deluge.

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