Genesis 11:8
So Yahweh scattered them from there across the surface of all the earth and they stopped building the city.
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7Come, let us go down and confuse their language there, so that they may not understand each other.”
Cross References
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 11:9Therefore, its name was called Babel, because there Yahweh confused the language of the whole earth and from there Yahweh scattered them abroad over the surface of all the earth.
Deuteronomy 32:8When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance— 1 when he divided all of mankind, 1 and he set the boundaries of the peoples, 1 as he also fixed the number of their gods. 1
Luke 1:51He has displayed strength with his arm; 1 he has scattered those who were proud about the thoughts of their hearts. 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 →