Genesis 11:1

World English Bible (2000)

The whole earth was of one language and of one speech.

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Referenced Verses

  • Zeph 3:9 : 9 For then I will purify the lips of the peoples, that they may all call on the name of Yahweh, to serve him shoulder to shoulder.
  • Acts 2:6 : 6 When this sound was heard, the multitude came together, and were bewildered, because everyone heard them speaking in his own language.
  • Isa 19:18 : 18 In that day, there will be five cities in the land of Egypt that speak the language of Canaan, and swear to Yahweh of Armies. One will be called "The city of destruction."

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  • Gen 11:2-9
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    2It happened, as they traveled east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they lived there.

    3They said one to another, "Come, let's make bricks, and burn them thoroughly." They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.

    4They said, "Come, let's build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let's make ourselves a name, lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth."

    5Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.

    6Yahweh said, "Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do.

    7Come, let's go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech."

    8So Yahweh scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city.

    9Therefore its name was called Babel, because there Yahweh confused the language of all the earth. From there, Yahweh scattered them abroad on the surface of all the earth.

  • Acts 2:6-8
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    6When this sound was heard, the multitude came together, and were bewildered, because everyone heard them speaking in his own language.

    7They were all amazed and marveled, saying to one another, "Behold, aren't all these who speak Galileans?

    8How do we hear, everyone in our own native language?

  • Gen 10:5
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    5Of these were the islands of the nations divided in their lands, everyone after his language, after their families, in their nations.

  • Gen 1:1-2
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    1In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

    2Now the earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep. God's Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.

  • Gen 1:9-10
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    9God said, "Let the waters under the sky be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear;" and it was so.

    10God called the dry land "earth," and the gathering together of the waters he called "seas." God saw that it was good.

  • 1 Chr 1:19-20
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    19To Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg; for in his days the earth was divided; and his brother's name was Joktan.

    20Joktan became the father of Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah,

  • Zeph 3:9
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    9For then I will purify the lips of the peoples, that they may all call on the name of Yahweh, to serve him shoulder to shoulder.

  • Gen 10:31-32
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    31These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their languages, in their lands, after their nations.

    32These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations. Of these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.

  • Acts 2:4
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    4They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other languages, as the Spirit gave them the ability to speak.

  • Gen 6:1
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    1It happened, when men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them,

  • Acts 2:12
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    12They were all amazed, and were perplexed, saying one to another, "What does this mean?"

  • Gen 10:25
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    25To Eber were born two sons. The name of the one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided. His brother's name was Joktan.

  • Gen 1:6-7
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    6God said, "Let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters."

    7God made the expanse, and divided the waters which were under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse; and it was so.

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    10Cush became the father of Nimrod; he began to be a mighty one in the earth.

  • Acts 2:1
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    1Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place.

  • 1 Chr 1:25
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    25Eber, Peleg, Reu,

  • Gen 1:15
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    15and let them be for lights in the expanse of sky to give light on the earth;" and it was so.

  • Gen 14:1
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    1It happened in the days of Amraphel, king of Shinar, Arioch, king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, and Tidal, king of Goiim,

  • Isa 28:11
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    11But he will speak to this nation with stammering lips and in another language;

  • Gen 9:19
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    19These three were the sons of Noah, and from these, the whole earth was populated.

  • Gen 2:1
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    1The heavens and the earth were finished, and all their vast array.