Genesis 11:6

World English Bible (2000)

Yahweh 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.

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  • Gen 11:1 : 1 The whole earth was of one language and of one speech.
  • Luke 1:51 : 51 He has shown strength with his arm. He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.
  • Gen 9:19 : 19 These three were the sons of Noah, and from these, the whole earth was populated.
  • Acts 17:26 : 26 He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons, and the boundaries of their dwellings,
  • Gen 3:22 : 22 Yahweh God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Now, lest he put forth his hand, and also take of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever..."
  • Gen 6:5 : 5 Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
  • Gen 8:21 : 21 Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, "I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake, because the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I ever again strike everything living, as I have done.
  • Judg 10:14 : 14 Go and cry to the gods which you have chosen. Let them save you in the time of your distress!"
  • 1 Kgs 18:27 : 27 It happened at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, "Cry aloud; for he is a god. Either he is musing, or he has gone aside, or he is on a journey, or perhaps he sleeps and must be awakened."
  • Ps 2:1-4 : 1 Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing? 2 The kings of the earth take a stand, and the rulers take counsel together, against Yahweh, and against his Anointed, saying, 3 "Let's break their bonds apart, and cast their cords from us." 4 He who sits in the heavens will laugh. The Lord will have them in derision.
  • Eccl 11:9 : 9 Rejoice, young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart, and in the sight of your eyes; but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.

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  • Gen 11:7-9
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    7 Come, let's go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech."

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

    9 Therefore 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.

  • Gen 11:1-5
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    1 The whole earth was of one language and of one speech.

    2 It happened, as they traveled east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they lived there.

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

    4 They 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."

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

  • Gen 6:1-3
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    1 It happened, when men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them,

    2 that God's sons saw that men's daughters were beautiful, and they took for themselves wives of all that they chose.

    3 Yahweh said, "My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; yet will his days be one hundred twenty years."

  • 5 Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

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

  • 26 God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."

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

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

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

  • 21 In the law it is written, "By men of strange languages and by the lips of strangers I will speak to this people. Not even thus will they hear me, says the Lord."

  • Gen 6:12-13
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    12 God saw the earth, and saw that it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.

    13 God said to Noah, "The end of all flesh has come before me, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

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

  • 17 Yahweh said, "Will I hide from Abraham what I do,

  • 22 Yahweh God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Now, lest he put forth his hand, and also take of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever..."

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