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"Come, let’s go down and confuse their language so they won’t be able to understand each other.”"
— Genesis 11:7, NET Bible
“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 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.”
Then they said,“Come, let’s build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens so that we may make a name for ourselves. Otherwise we will be scattered across the face of the entire earth.”
But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the people had started building.
And the LORD said,“If as one people all sharing a common language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be beyond them.
Come, let’s go down and confuse their language so they won’t be able to understand each other.”
So the LORD scattered them from there across the face of the entire earth, and they stopped building the city.
That is why its name was called Babel– because there the LORD confused the language of the entire world, and from there the LORD scattered them across the face of the entire earth.
The Genealogy of Shem This is the account of Shem.Shem was 100 years old when he became the father of Arphaxad, two years after the flood.