Genesis 11:7
Come on, let vs goe downe, and there confound their language, that euery one perceiue not anothers speache.
Geneva Bible 1599
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In Context
8So ye Lord scattered them from thence vpon all the earth, and they left off to build the citie.
Cross References
Genesis 1:26Furthermore God said, Let vs make man in our image according to our likenes, and let them rule ouer the fish of the sea, and ouer the foule of the heauen, and ouer the beastes, and ouer all the earth, and ouer euery thing that creepeth and moueth on the earth.
Genesis 10:5Of these were the yles of the Gentiles deuided in their landes, euery man after his tongue, and after their families in their nations.
Genesis 10:32These are the families of the sonnes of Noah, after their generations among their people: and out of these were the nations diuided in the earth after the flood.
Genesis 42:23(And they were not aware that Ioseph vnderstoode them: for he spake vnto them by an interpreter.)
Job 5:12He scattereth the deuices of the craftie: so that their handes can not accomplish that which they doe enterprise.
Psalms 2:4But he that dwelleth in the heauen, shall laugh: the Lord shall haue 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 →