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Genesis 11:7

Come on let vs descende and myngell theire tonge even there that one vnderstonde not what a nother sayeth.

William Tyndale Bible (1525/1530)

In The King James Version

Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.

In Context

6And the LORde sayd: See the people is one and haue one tonge amonge them all. And thys haue they begon to do and wyll not leaue of from all that they haue purposed to do.

8Thus ye LORde skatered them from thence vppon all the erth. And they left of to buylde the cyte.

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Cross References

Genesis 1:26And God sayd: let vs make man in oure symilitude ad after oure lycknesse: that he may have rule over the fysh of the see and over the foules of the ayre and over catell and over all the erth and over all wormes that crepe on the erth.

Genesis 10:5Of these came the Iles of the gentylls in there contres every man in his speach kynred and nation.

Genesis 10:32These are the kynreddes of the sonnes of Noe in their generations and nations. And of these came the people that were in the world after the floude.

Genesis 42:23They were not aware that Ioseph vnderstode them for he spake vnto them by an interpreter.

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 →

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