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.
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Referenced Verses
- Luke 1:51 : 51 He hath shewed strength with his arm; he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.
- Gen 10:25 : 25 And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of one [was] Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother's name [was] Joktan.
- Gen 10:32 : 32 These [are] the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.
- Gen 11:4 : 4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top [may reach] unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
- Gen 11:9 : 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.
- Gen 49:7 : 7 Cursed [be] their anger, for [it was] fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.
- Deut 32:8 : 8 When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.
Similar Verses (AI)
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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.
- Gen 11:1-77 verses86%
1 ¶ And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.
2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.
3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.
4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top [may reach] unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
5 ¶ And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
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.
7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
- Gen 10:10-112 verses70%
10 And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
11 Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah,
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6 Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language.
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5 By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.
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23 Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
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11 And he said unto me, To build it an house in the land of Shinar: and it shall be established, and set there upon her own base.
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32 These [are] the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.
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27 To overthrow their seed also among the nations, and to scatter them in the lands.
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8 And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every man to his neighbour, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this great city?
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19 And I scattered them among the heathen, and they were dispersed through the countries: according to their way and according to their doings I judged them.