Genesis 11:7

Give help, let us go down, and mingle there their pronunciation, so that a man doth not understand the pronunciation of his companion.'

Young's Literal Translation

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 Jehovah saith, 'Lo, the people [is] one, and one pronunciation [is] to them all, and this it hath dreamed of doing; and now, nothing is restrained from them of that which they have purposed to do.

8And Jehovah doth scatter them from thence over the face of all the earth, and they cease to build the city;

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Cross References

Genesis 1:26And God saith, 'Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness, and let them rule over fish of the sea, and over fowl of the heavens, and over cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that is creeping on the earth.'

Genesis 10:5By these have the isles of the nations been parted in their lands, each by his tongue, by their families, in their nations.

Genesis 10:32These [are] families of the sons of Noah, by their births, in their nations, and by these have the nations been parted in the earth after the deluge.

Genesis 42:23And they have not known that Joseph understandeth, for the interpreter [is] between them;

Job 5:12Making void thoughts of the subtile, And their hands do not execute wisdom.

Psalms 2:4He who is sitting in the heavens doth laugh, The Lord doth mock at them.

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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