Old Testament · VERSE 7

Genesis 11:7

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Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.

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Genesis 11:7 in context

Genesis 11:5

And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.

Genesis 11:6

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.

Genesis 11:7SELECTED VERSE

Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.

Genesis 11:8

So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.

Genesis 11:9

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.

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