King James Version with Apocrypha
"Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech."
— Genesis 11:7, King James Version with Apocrypha
“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.”
And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
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.
Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.
So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
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.
These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood: