SinaiGenesis 11:7
World English Bible
Come, let’s go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”
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Genesis 11:7 in other translations
Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.
Genesis 11:7 in context
- 5Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.
- 6Yahweh said, “Behold, they are one people, and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do.
- 7Come, let’s go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”
- 8So Yahweh scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city.
- 9Therefore its name was called Babel, because there Yahweh confused the language of all the earth. From there, Yahweh scattered them abroad on the surface of all the earth.