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Genesis 11:8

American Standard Version

So Jehovah scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off building the city.

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Genesis 11:8 in other translations

So Yahweh scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city.

Genesis 11:8 · World English Bible

Genesis 11:8 in context

  1. 6And Jehovah said, Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is what they begin to do: and now nothing will be withholden from them, which they purpose to do.
  2. 7Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.
  3. 8So Jehovah scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off building the city.
  4. 9Therefore was the name of it called Babel; because Jehovah did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did Jehovah scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
  5. 10These are the generations of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old, and begat Arpachshad two years after the flood: