Genesis 11:8

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Luke 1:51 : 51 He has shown strength with His arm; He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.
  • Gen 10:25 : 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 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, 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.
  • Gen 11:9 : 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.
  • 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 boundaries of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.

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  • Gen 11:9
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    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.

  • Gen 11:1-7
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    1 And the whole earth had one language and one speech.

    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.

  • Gen 10:10-11
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    10 And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

    11 Out of that land went Asshur and built Nineveh, and the city of Rehoboth, and Calah,

  • Acts 2:6
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    6 When this sound occurred, the multitude came together and were bewildered, because each one heard them speaking in his own language.

  • 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 3:23
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    23 Therefore the LORD God sent him out of the garden of Eden to till the ground from which he was taken.

  • Zech 5:11
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    11 And he said to me, To build it a house in the land of Shinar: and it shall be established, and set there upon its own base.

  • Gen 10:32
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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.

  • Ps 106:27
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    27 To overthrow their descendants also among the nations, and to scatter them in the lands.

  • Jer 22:8
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    8 And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every man to his neighbor, Why has the LORD done thus to this great city?

  • Ezek 36:19
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    19 And I scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed through the countries: according to their way and according to their doings I judged them.

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