Genesis 11:8
So the LORD scattered them from there across the face of the entire earth, and they stopped building the city.
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- 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 10:25 : 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 10:32 : 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.
- Gen 11:4 : 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.”
- Gen 11:9 : 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.
- Gen 49:7 : 7 Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce, and their fury, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel!
- Deut 32:8 : 8 When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when he divided up humankind, he set the boundaries of the peoples, according to the number of the heavenly assembly.
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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.
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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.
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.”
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10The primary regions of his kingdom were Babel, Erech, Akkad, and Calneh in the land of Shinar.
11From that land he went to Assyria, where he built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah,
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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.
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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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23So the LORD God expelled him from the orchard in Eden to cultivate the ground from which he had been taken.
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11He replied,“To build a temple for her in the land of Babylonia. When it is finished, she will be placed there in her own residence.”
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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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27make their descendants die among the nations, and scatter them among foreign lands.
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8“‘People from other nations will pass by this city. They will ask one another,“Why has the LORD done such a thing to this great city?”
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19I scattered them among the nations; they were dispersed throughout foreign countries. In accordance with their behavior and their deeds I judged them.