Genesis 11:1
The Dispersion of the Nations at Babel The whole earth had a common language and a common vocabulary.
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- Zeph 3:9 : 9 Know for sure that I will then enable the nations to give me acceptable praise. All of them will invoke the LORD’s name when they pray, and will worship him in unison.
- Acts 2:6 : 6 When this sound occurred, a crowd gathered and was in confusion, because each one heard them speaking in his own language.
- Isa 19:18 : 18 At that time five cities in the land of Egypt will speak the language of Canaan and swear allegiance to the LORD of Heaven’s Armies. One will be called the City of the Sun.
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2 When the people moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there.
3 Then they said to one another,“Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.”(They had brick instead of stone and tar instead of mortar.)
4 Then they said,“Come, let’s build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens so that we may make a name for ourselves. Otherwise we will be scattered across the face of the entire earth.”
5 But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the people had started building.
6 And the LORD said,“If as one people all sharing a common language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be beyond them.
7 Come, let’s go down and confuse their language so they won’t be able to understand each other.”
8 So the LORD scattered them from there across the face of the entire earth, and they stopped building the city.
9 That is why its name was called Babel– because there the LORD confused the language of the entire world, and from there the LORD scattered them across the face of the entire earth.
- Acts 2:6-83 verses74%
6 When this sound occurred, a crowd gathered and was in confusion, because each one heard them speaking in his own language.
7 Completely baffled, they said,“Aren’t all these who are speaking Galileans?
8 And how is it that each one of us hears them in our own native language?
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5 From these the coastlands of the nations were separated into their lands, every one according to its language, according to their families, by their nations.
- Gen 1:1-22 verses72%
1 ¶ The Creation of the World In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
2 Now the earth was without shape and empty, and darkness was over the surface of the watery deep, but the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the water.
- Gen 1:9-102 verses72%
9 God said,“Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place and let dry ground appear.” It was so.
10 God called the dry ground“land” and the gathered waters he called“seas.” God saw that it was good.
- 1 Chr 1:19-202 verses71%
19 Two sons were born to Eber: the first was named Peleg, for during his lifetime the earth was divided; his brother’s name was Joktan.
20 Joktan was the father of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,
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9 Know for sure that I will then enable the nations to give me acceptable praise. All of them will invoke the LORD’s name when they pray, and will worship him in unison.
- Gen 10:31-322 verses71%
31 These are the sons of Shem according to their families, according to their languages, by their lands, and according to their nations.
32 These are the families of the sons of Noah, according to their genealogies, by their nations, and from these the nations spread over the earth after the flood.
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4 All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit, and they began to speak in other languages as the Spirit enabled them.
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1 God’s Grief over Humankind’s Wickedness When humankind began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them,
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12 All were astounded and greatly confused, saying to one another,“What does this mean?”
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25 Two sons were born to Eber: One was named Peleg because in his days the earth was divided, and his brother’s name was Joktan.
- Gen 1:6-72 verses69%
6 God said,“Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters and let it separate water from water.”
7 So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. It was so.
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10 Cush was the father of Nimrod, who established himself as a mighty warrior on earth.
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1 The Holy Spirit and the Day of Pentecost Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place.
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25 Eber, Peleg, Reu,
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15 and let them serve as lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth.” It was so.
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1 The Blessing of Victory for God’s People At that time Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Kedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of nations
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11 For with mocking lips and a foreign tongue he will speak to these people.
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19 These were the three sons of Noah, and from them the whole earth was populated.
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1 The heavens and the earth were completed with everything that was in them.