Genesis 11:7
Come, let us go down and confuse their language there, so that they may not understand each other.”
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Genesis 1:26God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” + 1:26 Some ancient copies have: ... Over the livestock, over all the animals of the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth .
Genesis 10:5From these the coastland peoples separated and went into their lands, every one with its own language, according to their clans, by their nations.
Genesis 10:32These were the clans of the sons of Noah, according to their genealogies, by their nations. From these the nations separated and went over the earth after the flood.
Genesis 42:23They did not know that Joseph understood them, for there was an interpreter between them.
Job 5:12He breaks the plans of the crafty people, 1 so that their hands cannot achieve success. 1
Psalms 2:4He who sits in the heavens will sneer at them; 1 the Lord mocks 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 →