Genesis 11:9

Wherfore 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.

William Tyndale Bible (1525/1530)

In The King James Version

Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

In Context

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

10These are the generations of Sem: Se was an hundred yere olde and begat Arcphachsad ij. yere after the floude.

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Cross References

Genesis 10:10And the begynnynge of hys kyngdome was Babell Erech Achad and Chalne in the lande of Synear:

Genesis 10:25And Eber begat.ij. sonnes. The name of the one was Peleg for in his tyme the erth was devyded. And the name of his brother was Iaketanr

Acts 17:26and hath made of one bloud all nacions of men for to dwell on all the face of the erthe and hath assigned before how longe tyme and also the endes of their inhabitacion

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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