Catholic Public Domain Version
"Therefore, come, let us descend, and in that place confound their tongue, so that they may not listen, each one to the voice of his neighbor.” "
— Genesis 11:7, Catholic Public Domain Version
“Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”
“Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech. ”
“Come, let's go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech."”
“Come, let’s go down and confuse their language so they won’t be able to understand each other.””
“Come ye, therefore, let us go down, and there confound their tongue, that they may not understand one another's speech.”
“Come, let us go down and take away the sense of their language, so that they will not be able to make themselves clear to one another.”
“Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”
And they said: “Come, let us make a city and a tower, so that its height may reach to heaven. And let us make our name famous before we are divided into all the lands.”
Then the Lord descended to see the city and the tower, which the sons of Adam were building.
And he said: “Behold, the people are united, and all have one tongue. And since they have begun to do this, they will not desist from their plans, until they have completed their work.
Therefore, come, let us descend, and in that place confound their tongue, so that they may not listen, each one to the voice of his neighbor.”
And so the Lord divided them from that place into all the lands, and they ceased to build the city.
And for this reason, its name was called ‘Babel,’ because in that place the language of the whole earth became confused. And from then on, the Lord scattered them across the face of every region.
These are the generations of Shem. Shem was one hundred years old when he conceived Arphaxad, two years after the great flood.