Genesis 11:1

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Now the whole earth had one language and a common speech.

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Referenced Verses

  • Zeph 3:9 : 9 For at that time, I will transform the speech of the peoples to a pure language, so that all of them may call upon the name of the LORD and serve Him shoulder to shoulder.
  • Acts 2:6 : 6 When they heard this sound, a crowd came together in bewilderment because each one heard them speaking in their own language.
  • Isa 19:18 : 18 In that day, five cities in the land of Egypt will speak the language of Canaan and swear allegiance to the LORD of Hosts. One of them will be called the City of the Sun.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 11:2-9
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    2As people moved eastward, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.

    3They said to each other, "Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly." They had brick for stone and tar for mortar.

    4Then they said, "Come, let us build a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered over the face of the whole earth."

    5But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the people were building.

    6The LORD said, "Behold, they are one people, and they all have one language; and this is only the beginning of what they will do. Now nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them."

    7Come, let us go down and confuse their language so that they will not understand one another’s speech.

    8So the LORD scattered them from there over the face of the whole earth, and they stopped building the city.

    9That is why it was called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of the whole earth. From there the LORD scattered them over the face of the whole earth.

  • Acts 2:6-8
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    6When they heard this sound, a crowd came together in bewilderment because each one heard them speaking in their own language.

    7They were astonished and amazed, saying, 'Aren't all these who are speaking Galileans?'

    8How is it that each of us hears them in our native language where we were born?

  • Gen 10:5
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    5From these, the coastland peoples spread out into their lands, each according to his language, family, and nation.

  • Gen 1:1-2
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    1In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

    2Now the earth was formless and empty, and darkness covered the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters.

  • Gen 1:9-10
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    9Then God said, 'Let the waters under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear.' And it was so.

    10God called the dry ground 'land,' and the gathered waters he called 'seas.' And God saw that it was good.

  • 1 Chr 1:19-20
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    19Two sons were born to Eber: One was named Peleg, because in his time the earth was divided; his brother was named Joktan.

    20Joktan was the father of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, and Jerah.

  • Zeph 3:9
    71%

    9For at that time, I will transform the speech of the peoples to a pure language, so that all of them may call upon the name of the LORD and serve Him shoulder to shoulder.

  • Gen 10:31-32
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    31These are the sons of Shem by their clans, languages, lands, and nations.

    32These are the clans of Noah’s sons, according to their genealogies, by their nations. From these, the nations spread out over the earth after the flood.

  • Acts 2:4
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    4They were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in different languages as the Spirit enabled them to speak.

  • Gen 6:1
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    1When mankind began to multiply on the face of the earth and daughters were born to them,

  • Acts 2:12
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    12They were all amazed and perplexed, asking one another, 'What does this mean?'

  • Gen 10:25
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    25To Eber were born two sons: one was named Peleg, because in his days the earth was divided, and his brother’s name was Joktan.

  • Gen 1:6-7
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    6Then God said, 'Let there be a vault between the waters to separate water from water.'

    7So God made the vault and separated the water under the vault from the water above it. And it was so.

  • 1 Chr 1:10
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    10Cush was the father of Nimrod, who became a mighty warrior on the earth.

  • Acts 2:1
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    1When the day of Pentecost had fully 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 lights in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth.' And it was so.

  • Gen 14:1
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    1Now it came to pass in the days of Amraphel, king of Shinar, Arioch, king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, and Tidal, king of nations,

  • Isa 28:11
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    11Indeed, with stammering lips and another tongue, He will speak to this people.

  • Gen 9:19
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    19These three were the sons of Noah, and from them the whole earth was populated.

  • Gen 2:1
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    1So the heavens, the earth, and everything in them were completed.