Genesis 11:6

Bishops' Bible (1568)

And 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.

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  • Gen 11:1 : 1 And all the whole earth was of one language and lyke speache.
  • Luke 1:51 : 51 He hath shewed stregth with his arme, he hath scattered them that are proude, in the imagination of their heartes.
  • Gen 9:19 : 19 These are the three sonnes of Noah, & of them was the whole earth ouerspread.
  • Acts 17:26 : 26 And hath made of one blood all nations of men, for to dwell on all ye face of the earth, & hath determined the tymes before appoynted, and also the boundes of their habitation:
  • Gen 3:22 : 22 And the Lorde God sayde: Beholde, the man is become as one of vs, in knowing good and euyll: And now lest peraduenture he put foorth his hande, and take also of the tree of lyfe and eate, and lyue for euer.
  • Gen 6:5 : 5 But God sawe that the malice of man was great in the earth, and all the imagination of the thoughtes of his heart was only euyll euery day.
  • Gen 8:21 : 21 And the Lorde smelled a sweete or quiet sauour, and the Lord sayde in his heart: I wyll not hencefoorth curse the grounde any more for mans sake, for the imagination of mans heart is euyll euen from his youth: neyther wyll I smyte any more euery thyng lyuyng, as I haue done.
  • Judg 10:14 : 14 Go and crye vnto the gods whiche ye haue chosen, and let them saue you in the tyme of your tribulation.
  • 1 Kgs 18:27 : 27 And at noone Elias mocked them, and sayde: Crye lowde, for he is a God, peraduenture he is talking, or occupied in folowing vpon his enemies, or is in his iourney, or happyly he slepeth, and must be awaked with your crie.
  • Ps 2:1-4 : 1 Why do the Heathen so furiously rage together? and why do the people imagine a vayne thing? 2 The kynges of the earth stande vp: and the rulers take counsell together against god, and against his annointed. 3 Let vs breake say they their bondes a sunder: and cast away their cordes from vs. 4 He that dwelleth in heauen wyll laugh them to scorne: the Lorde wyll haue them in derision.
  • Eccl 11:9 : 9 Be glad then (O thou young man) in thy youth, and let thy heart be merie in thy young dayes, folowe the wayes of thyne owne heart, and the lust of thyne eyes, but be thou sure that God shall bryng thee into iudgement for all these thinges.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 11:7-9
    3 verses
    87%

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

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

    9 And 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.

  • Gen 11:1-5
    5 verses
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    1 And all the whole earth was of one language and lyke speache.

    2 And when they went foorth from the east, they founde a playne in the lande of Sinar, and there they abode.

    3 And 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.

    4 And 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.

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

  • Gen 6:1-3
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    1 And it came to passe, that when men began to be multiplied in the vpper face of the earth, there were daughters borne vnto the:

    2 And the sonnes of God also sawe the daughters of men that they were fayre, & they toke them wyues, such as theyliked, from among them all.

    3 And the Lorde sayde: My spirite shall not alwayes stryue with man, because he is fleshe: yet his dayes shalbe an hundreth and twentie yeres.

  • 5 But God sawe that the malice of man was great in the earth, and all the imagination of the thoughtes of his heart was only euyll euery day.

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

  • 26 God saide: let vs make man in our image, after our lykenesse, and let them haue rule of the fisshe of the sea, & of the foule of the ayre, and of cattell, & of all the earth, and of euery creepyng thyng that creepeth vpon the earth.

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

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

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

  • 21 In the lawe it is written: With sundry tongues, and with sundry lyppes, wyll I speake vnto this people, and yet for all that will they not heare me, sayth the Lorde.

  • Gen 6:12-13
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    12 And God loked vpon the earth, and beholde it was corrupt: for all fleshe had corrupt his way vpon earth.

    13 And God sayd vnto Noah: the ende of all fleshe is come before me, for the earth is fylled with crueltie through them, and beholde I wyl destroy them with the earth.

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

  • 17 And the Lorde sayde: shall I hyde from Abraham that thing which I do.

  • 22 And the Lorde God sayde: Beholde, the man is become as one of vs, in knowing good and euyll: And now lest peraduenture he put foorth his hande, and take also of the tree of lyfe and eate, and lyue for euer.

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