Genesis 11:8
And so the Lord departide hem fro that place in to alle londis; and thei cessiden to bielde a cytee.
Wycliffe (portions)
In The King James Version
In Context
7and scheende we there the tunge of hem, that ech man here not the voys of his neiybore.
Cross References
Genesis 10:5of these sones the ylis of hethen men weren departid in her cuntrees, ech bi his langage and meynees, in hise naciouns.
Genesis 10:32These ben the meynees of Noe, bi her puplis and naciouns; folkis in erthe weren departid of these aftir the greet flood.
Genesis 11:9And therfor the name therof was clepid Babel, for the langage of al erthe was confoundide there; and fro thennus the Lord scaterede hem on the face of alle cuntrees.
Deuteronomy 32:8Whanne the hiyeste departide folkis, whanne he departide the sones of Adam, he ordeynede the termes of puplis bi the noumbre of the sones of Israel. + 32:8 of the sones of Israel, the translacioun of lxx. hath, of the sones of God.
Luke 1:51He made myyt in his arme, he scaterede proude men with the thouyte of his herte.
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 →