Genesis 11:1

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And all the earth had one language and one tongue.

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Referenced Verses

  • Zeph 3:9 : 9 For then I will give the people a clean language, so that they may all make prayer to the Lord and be his servants with one mind.
  • Acts 2:6 : 6 And when this sound came to their ears, they all came together, and were greatly surprised because every man was hearing the words of the disciples in his special language.
  • Isa 19:18 : 18 In that day there will be five towns in the land of Egypt using the language of Canaan, and making oaths to the Lord of armies; and one of them will be named, The Town of the Sun.

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  • Gen 11:2-9
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    2And it came about that in their wandering from the east, they came to a stretch of flat country in the land of Shinar, and there they made their living-place.

    3And they said one to another, Come, let us make bricks, burning them well. And they had bricks for stone, putting them together with sticky earth.

    4And they said, Come, let us make a town, and a tower whose top will go up as high as heaven; and let us make a great name for ourselves, so that we may not be wanderers over the face of the earth.

    5And the Lord came down to see the town and the tower which the children of men were building.

    6And the Lord said, See, they are all one people and have all one language; and this is only the start of what they may do: and now it will not be possible to keep them from any purpose of theirs.

    7Come, 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.

    8So the Lord God sent them away into every part of the earth: and they gave up building their town.

    9So it was named Babel, because there the Lord took away the sense of all languages and from there the Lord sent them away over all the face of the earth.

  • Acts 2:6-8
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    6And when this sound came to their ears, they all came together, and were greatly surprised because every man was hearing the words of the disciples in his special language.

    7And they were full of wonder and said, Are not all these men Galilaeans?

    8And how is it that every one of us is hearing their words in the language which was ours from our birth?

  • Gen 10:5
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    5From these came the nations of the sea-lands, with their different families and languages.

  • Gen 1:1-2
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    1At the first God made the heaven and the earth.

    2And the earth was waste and without form; and it was dark on the face of the deep: and the Spirit of God was moving on the face of the waters.

  • Gen 1:9-10
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    9And God said, Let the waters under the heaven come together in one place, and let the dry land be seen: and it was so.

    10And God gave the dry land the name of Earth; and the waters together in their place were named Seas: and God saw that it was good.

  • 1 Chr 1:19-20
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    19And Eber had two sons: the name of the one was Peleg, because in his days a division was made of the earth; and his brother's name was Joktan.

    20And Joktan was the father of Almodad and Sheleph and Hazarmaveth and Jerah

  • Zeph 3:9
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    9For then I will give the people a clean language, so that they may all make prayer to the Lord and be his servants with one mind.

  • Gen 10:31-32
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    31These, with their families and their languages and their lands and their nations, are the offspring of Shem.

    32These are the families of the sons of Noah, in the order of their generations and their nations: from these came all the nations of the earth after the great flow of waters.

  • Acts 2:4
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    4And they were all full of the Holy Spirit, and were talking in different languages, as the Spirit gave them power.

  • Gen 6:1
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    1And after a time, when men were increasing on the earth, and had daughters,

  • Acts 2:12
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    12And they were all surprised and in doubt saying to one another, What is the reason of this?

  • Gen 10:25
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    25And Eber had two sons: the name of the one was Peleg, because in his time the peoples of the earth became separate; and his brother's name was Joktan.

  • Gen 1:6-7
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    6And God said, Let there be a solid arch stretching over the waters, parting the waters from the waters.

    7And God made the arch for a division between the waters which were under the arch and those which were over it: and it was so.

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    10And Cush was the father of Nimrod: he was the first to be a great man in the earth.

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    1And when the day of Pentecost was come, they were all together in one place.

  • 1 Chr 1:25
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    25Eber, Peleg, Reu,

  • Gen 1:15
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    15And let them be for lights in the arch of heaven to give light on the earth: and it was so.

  • Gen 14:1
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    1Now in the days of Amraphel, king of Shinar, Arioch, king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, and Tidal, king of Goiim,

  • Isa 28:11
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    11No, but with broken talk, and with a strange tongue, he will give his word to this people:

  • Gen 9:19
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    19These three were the sons of Noah and from them all the earth was peopled.

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    1And the heaven and the earth and all things in them were complete.