Genesis 11:1

Bishops' Bible (1568)

And all the whole earth was of one language and lyke speache.

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Referenced Verses

  • Zeph 3:9 : 9 And then will I clense the lippes of the people, that they may euery one call vpon the name of the Lorde, and serue him with one consent.
  • Acts 2:6 : 6 When this was noysed about, the multitude came together and were astonnyed, because that euery man hearde them speake with his owne language.
  • Isa 19:18 : 18 In that day shall fiue cities in the lande of Egypt speake the language of Chanaan, and sweare by the Lorde of hoastes: the citie of desolation shalbe called one of them.

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  • Gen 11:2-9
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    2And when they went foorth from the east, they founde a playne in the lande of Sinar, and there they abode.

    3And one sayd to another: Come, let vs prepare brycke, and burne them in the fire. And they had brycke for stones, and slyme had they in steade of morter.

    4And they sayd: Go to, let vs buylde vs a citie and a towre, whose toppe may reache vnto heauen, and let vs make vs a name, lest peraduenture we be scattered abrode into the vpper face of the whole earth.

    5But the Lorde came downe to see the citie and towre whiche the chyldren of men buylded.

    6And the Lorde sayd: Beholde, the people is one, and they haue all one language, and this they begin to do: neither is there any let to them from all those thinges whiche they haue imagined to do.

    7Come on, let vs go downe, and there confounde their language, that euerye one perceaue not his neighbours speache.

    8And so the Lorde scattered them from that place into the vpper face of all the earth, and they left of to buylde that citie.

    9And therfore is the name of it called Babel, because the Lord dyd there confounde the language of all the earth: and from thence dyd the Lorde scatter them abrode vpon the face of all the earth.

  • Acts 2:6-8
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    6When this was noysed about, the multitude came together and were astonnyed, because that euery man hearde them speake with his owne language.

    7They wondred all, and marueyled, saying among themselues: Beholde, are not all these which speake, of Galilee?

    8And howe heare we euery man his owne tongue, wherin we were borne?

  • Gen 10:5
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    5Of these were the Iles of the gentiles deuided in their landes, euery one after his tongue, and after his kinrede, in their nations.

  • Gen 1:1-2
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    1In the beginnyng GOD created ye heauen and the earth.

    2And the earth was without fourme, and was voyde: & darknes was vpon the face of the deepe, and the spirite of God moued vpon the face of the waters.

  • Gen 1:9-10
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    9And God saide: let the waters vnder the heauen be gathered together into one place, and let the drye lande appeare: and it was so.

    10And God called the drie lande ye earth, and the gatheryng together of waters called he the seas: and God sawe that it was good.

  • 1 Chr 1:19-20
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    19And vnto Eber were borne two sonnes: the name of the one was Peleg, because that in his dayes the land was deuided, and his brothers name was Ioktan.

    20Ioktan begat Almodad, and Saleph, Hazermaneth, and Ierah,

  • Zeph 3:9
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    9And then will I clense the lippes of the people, that they may euery one call vpon the name of the Lorde, and serue him with one consent.

  • Gen 10:31-32
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    31These are the chyldren of Sem after their kinredes and tongues, in their landes and nations.

    32And so these are the kinredes of the chyldren of Noah after their generations in their peoples: and of these were the nations deuided in the earth after the flood.

  • Acts 2:4
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    4And they were all fylled with the holy ghost, and began to speake with other tongues, as the spirite gaue them vtteraunce.

  • Gen 6:1
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    1And it came to passe, that when men began to be multiplied in the vpper face of the earth, there were daughters borne vnto the:

  • Acts 2:12
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    12They were all amased, and wondred, saying one to another: What meaneth this?

  • Gen 10:25
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    25Unto Heber also were borne two sonnes: the name of the one was Peleg, for in his dayes was the earth deuided, and his brothers name was Iactan.

  • Gen 1:6-7
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    6And God said: let there be a firmament betwene the waters, and let it make a diuision betwene waters and waters.

    7And God made the firmament, and set the diuision betwene the waters which were vnder the firmament, and the waters that were aboue the firmament: and it was so.

  • 1 Chr 1:10
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    10And Chus begat Nimrod: and he began to be mightie vpon the earth.

  • Acts 2:1
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    1And when the day of Pentecost was, they were all with one accorde in one place:

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

  • Gen 1:15
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    15And let them be for lyghtes in the firmament of the heauen, that they maye geue light vpo the earth: and it was so.

  • Gen 14:1
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    1And it came to passe in the dayes of Amraphel kyng of Sinar, Arioch kyng of Elasar, Chodorlaomer kyng of Elam, and Thidai kyng of the nations:

  • Isa 28:11
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    11For he that speaketh vnto this people, is euen as one that vseth rudenesse of speache, and a straunge language.

  • Gen 9:19
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    19These are the three sonnes of Noah, & of them was the whole earth ouerspread.

  • Gen 2:1
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    1The heauens also & the earth were finisshed, & all the hoast of them.