Genesis 11:1

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

The Dispersion of the Nations at Babel The whole earth had a common language and a common vocabulary.

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Referenced Verses

  • 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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    2When the people moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there.

    3Then 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.)

    4Then 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.”

    5But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the people had started building.

    6And 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.

    7Come, let’s go down and confuse their language so they won’t be able to understand each other.”

    8So the LORD scattered them from there across the face of the entire earth, and they stopped building the city.

    9That 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 2:6-8
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    6When this sound occurred, a crowd gathered and was in confusion, because each one heard them speaking in his own language.

    7Completely baffled, they said,“Aren’t all these who are speaking Galileans?

    8And how is it that each one of us hears them in our own native language?

  • Gen 10:5
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    5From these the coastlands of the nations were separated into their lands, every one according to its language, according to their families, by their nations.

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    1¶ The Creation of the World In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

    2Now 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 1:9-10
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    9God said,“Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place and let dry ground appear.” It was so.

    10God called the dry ground“land” and the gathered waters he called“seas.” God saw that it was good.

  • 1 Chr 1:19-20
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    19Two sons were born to Eber: the first was named Peleg, for during his lifetime the earth was divided; his brother’s name was Joktan.

    20Joktan was the father of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,

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    9Know 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 10:31-32
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    31These are the sons of Shem according to their families, according to their languages, by their lands, and according to their nations.

    32These 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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    4All 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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    1God’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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    12All were astounded and greatly confused, saying to one another,“What does this mean?”

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    25Two sons were born to Eber: One was named Peleg because in his days the earth was divided, and his brother’s name was Joktan.

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    6God said,“Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters and let it separate water from water.”

    7So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. It was so.

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    10Cush was the father of Nimrod, who established himself as a mighty warrior on earth.

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    25Eber, Peleg, Reu,

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    15and let them serve as lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth.” It was so.

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    1The 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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    11For with mocking lips and a foreign tongue he will speak to these people.

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    19These were the three sons of Noah, and from them the whole earth was populated.

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    1The heavens and the earth were completed with everything that was in them.