Genesis 11:1

KJV1611 – Modern English

And the whole earth had one language and one speech.

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  • Zeph 3:9 : 9 For then I will 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 When this sound occurred, the multitude came together and were bewildered, because each one heard them speaking in his own language.
  • Isa 19:18 : 18 In that day five cities in the land of Egypt shall speak the language of Canaan and swear to the LORD of hosts; one shall be called, The city of destruction.

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  • Gen 11:2-9
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    85%

    2 And it happened, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar and lived there.

    3 And they said to one another, Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and tar they had for mortar.

    4 And they said, Come, let us build a city and a tower whose top may reach to heaven, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.

    5 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built.

    6 And the LORD said, Behold, the people are one, and they all have one language; and this is what they begin to do: now nothing will be withheld from them which they have planned to do.

    7 Come, let us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.

    8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they ceased building the city.

    9 Therefore its name is called Babel, because the LORD confused the language of all the earth there, and from there the LORD scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.

  • Acts 2:6-8
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    74%

    6 When this sound occurred, the multitude came together and were bewildered, because each one heard them speaking in his own language.

    7 They were all amazed and marveled, saying to one another, 'Behold, are not all these who speak Galileans?'

    8 How is it that we hear each in our own language in which we were born?

  • Gen 10:5
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    5 By these were the islands of the Gentiles divided in their lands, everyone after his language, after their families, in their nations.

  • Gen 1:1-2
    2 verses
    72%

    1 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

    2 And the earth was formless and empty, and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved over the surface of the waters.

  • Gen 1:9-10
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    72%

    9 And God said, Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together in one place, and let the dry land appear; and it was so.

    10 And God called the dry land Earth, and the gathered waters He called Seas; and God saw that it was good.

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

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

    20 And Joktan begot Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,

  • Zeph 3:9
    71%

    9 For then I will 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
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    71%

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

    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.

  • Acts 2:4
    70%

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

  • Gen 6:1
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    1 And it happened, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them,

  • Acts 2:12
    70%

    12 They were all amazed and perplexed, saying to one another, 'What does this mean?'

  • Gen 10:25
    70%

    25 And to Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided; and his brother's name was Joktan.

  • Gen 1:6-7
    2 verses
    69%

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

    7 And God made the sky and separated the waters which were under the sky from the waters which were above the sky; and it was so.

  • 1 Chr 1:10
    69%

    10 And Cush begot Nimrod; he began to be mighty on the earth.

  • Acts 2:1
    69%

    1 When the day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all together in one place.

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

  • Gen 1:15
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    15 And let them be for lights in the sky of the heavens 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 three were the sons of Noah, and from them the whole earth was populated.

  • Gen 2:1
    68%

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

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