Genesis 11:7
Genesis chapter 11 · verse 7 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.
KJV
King James Version · 1611Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.
Context
v.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.
v.7This passage
v.8So Jehovah scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off building the city.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Psalms 33:10
Jehovah bringeth the counsel of the nations to nought; He maketh the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.
- Genesis 10:20
These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, in their nations.
- Psalms 2:4
He that sitteth in the heavens will laugh: The Lord will have them in derision.
- Genesis 42:23
And they knew not that Joseph understood them; for there was an interpreter between them.
- Genesis 3:22
And Jehovah God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil; and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever—
- Genesis 10:32
These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and of these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.