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Genesis 11:8

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

William Tyndale Bible (1525/1530)

In The King James Version

So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.

In Context

7Come on let vs descende and myngell theire tonge even there that one vnderstonde not what a nother sayeth.

9Wherfore the name of it is called Babell because that the LORDE there confounded the tonge of all the world. And because that the LORde from thence skatered them abrode vppon all the erth.

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Cross References

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 11:9Wherfore the name of it is called Babell because that the LORDE there confounded the tonge of all the world. And because that the LORde from thence skatered them abrode vppon all the erth.

Luke 1:51He sheweth strength with his arme he scattereth them that are proude in the ymaginacion of their hertes.

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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