Genesis 11:1

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

And the whole earth was of one langua, and of one speech.

Additional Resources

Referenced Verses

  • Zeph 3:9 : 9 For then will I turn to the people a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of the LORD, to serve him with one consent.
  • Acts 2:6 : 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.
  • Isa 19:18 : 18 In that day shall five cities in the land of Egypt speak the language of Canaan, and swear to the LORD of hosts; one shall be called, The city of destruction.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Gen 11:2-9
    8 verses
    85%

    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 langua; 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 langua, that they may not understand one another's speech.

    8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.

    9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the langua of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

  • Acts 2:6-8
    3 verses
    74%

    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.

    7 And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans?

    8 And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born?

  • Gen 10:5
    74%

    5 By these were the isles of the ntiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.

  • Gen 1:1-2
    2 verses
    72%

    1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

    2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

  • Gen 1:9-10
    2 verses
    72%

    9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered tother unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.

    10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering tother of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.

  • 1 Chr 1:19-20
    2 verses
    71%

    19 And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg; because in his days the earth was divided: and his brother's name was Joktan.

    20 And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah,

  • Zeph 3:9
    71%

    9 For then will I turn to the people a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of the LORD, to serve him with one consent.

  • Gen 10:31-32
    2 verses
    71%

    31 These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations.

    32 These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their nerations, in their nations: and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.

  • Acts 2:4
    70%

    4 And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.

  • Gen 6:1
    70%

    1 And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,

  • Acts 2:12
    70%

    12 And they were all amazed, and were in doubt, saying one to another, What meaneth this?

  • Gen 10:25
    70%

    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 1:6-7
    2 verses
    69%

    6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.

    7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.

  • 1 Chr 1:10
    69%

    10 And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be mighty upon the earth.

  • Acts 2:1
    69%

    1 And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one cord in one ple.

  • 1 Chr 1:25
    69%

    25 Eber, Peleg, Reu,

  • Gen 1:15
    69%

    15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.

  • Gen 14:1
    69%

    1 And 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
    69%

    11 For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.

  • Gen 9:19
    68%

    19 These are the three sons of Noah: and of them was the whole earth overspread.

  • Gen 2:1
    68%

    1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.