Genesis 11:6

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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.

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  • Gen 11:1 : 1 The Dispersion of the Nations at Babel The whole earth had a common language and a common vocabulary.
  • Luke 1:51 : 51 He has demonstrated power with his arm; he has scattered those whose pride wells up from the sheer arrogance of their hearts.
  • Gen 9:19 : 19 These were the three sons of Noah, and from them the whole earth was populated.
  • Acts 17:26 : 26 From one man he made every nation of the human race to inhabit the entire earth, determining their set times and the fixed limits of the places where they would live,
  • Gen 3:22 : 22 And the LORD God said,“Now that the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil, he must not be allowed to stretch out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.”
  • Gen 6:5 : 5 But the LORD saw that the wickedness of humankind had become great on the earth. Every inclination of the thoughts of their minds was only evil all the time.
  • Gen 8:21 : 21 And the LORD smelled the soothing aroma and said to himself,“I will never again curse the ground because of humankind, even though the inclination of their minds is evil from childhood on. I will never again destroy everything that lives, as I have just done.
  • Judg 10:14 : 14 Go and cry for help to the gods you have chosen! Let them deliver you from trouble!”
  • 1 Kgs 18:27 : 27 At noon Elijah mocked them,“Yell louder! After all, he is a god; he may be deep in thought, or perhaps he stepped out for a moment or has taken a trip. Perhaps he is sleeping and needs to be awakened.”
  • Ps 2:1-4 : 1 Why do the nations rebel? Why are the countries devising plots that will fail? 2 The kings of the earth form a united front; the rulers collaborate against the LORD and his anointed king. 3 They say,“Let’s tear off the shackles they’ve put on us! Let’s free ourselves from their ropes!” 4 The one enthroned in heaven laughs in disgust; the Lord taunts them.
  • Eccl 11:9 : 9 Enjoy Life to the Fullest under the Fear of God Rejoice, young man, while you are young, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth. Follow the impulses of your heart and the desires of your eyes, but know that God will judge your motives and actions.

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  • Gen 11:7-9
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    87%

    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.

  • Gen 11:1-5
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    1The Dispersion of the Nations at Babel The whole earth had a common language and a common vocabulary.

    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.

  • 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?

  • Zeph 3:9
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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 6:1-3
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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,

    2the sons of God saw that the daughters of humankind were beautiful. Thus they took wives for themselves from any they chose.

    3So the LORD said,“My Spirit will not remain in humankind indefinitely, since they are mortal. They will remain for 120 more years.”

  • Gen 6:5
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    5But the LORD saw that the wickedness of humankind had become great on the earth. Every inclination of the thoughts of their minds was only evil all the time.

  • Acts 2:12
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    12All were astounded and greatly confused, saying to one another,“What does this mean?”

  • Gen 1:26
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    26Then God said,“Let us make humankind in our image, after our likeness, so they may rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move on the earth.”

  • Gen 1:6
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    6God said,“Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters and let it separate water from water.”

  • 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.

  • Acts 2:4
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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.

  • 1 Cor 14:21
    67%

    21It is written in the law:“By people with strange tongues and by the lips of strangers I will speak to this people, yet not even in this way will they listen to me,” says the Lord.

  • Gen 6:12-13
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    12God saw the earth, and indeed it was ruined, for all living creatures on the earth were sinful.

    13So God said to Noah,“I have decided that all living creatures must die, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. Now I am about to destroy them and the earth.

  • Isa 28:11
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    11For with mocking lips and a foreign tongue he will speak to these people.

  • Gen 18:17
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    17Then the LORD said,“Should I hide from Abraham what I am about to do?

  • Gen 3:22
    66%

    22And the LORD God said,“Now that the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil, he must not be allowed to stretch out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.”

  • Gen 1:9
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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.