Genesis 11:7
Come, let’s go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”
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Genesis 1:26God said, “Let’s make man in our image, after our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
Genesis 10:5Of these were the islands of the nations divided in their lands, everyone after his language, after their families, in their nations.
Genesis 10:32These are the families of the sons of Noah, by their generations, according to their nations. The nations divided from these on the earth after the flood.
Genesis 42:23They didn’t know that Joseph understood them; for there was an interpreter between them.
Job 5:12He frustrates the plans of the crafty, so that their hands can’t perform their enterprise.
Psalms 2:4He who sits in the heavens will laugh. The Lord will have them in derision.
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 →