Genesis 11:7

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Gen 1:26 : 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."
  • Gen 42:23 : 23 They didn't know that Joseph understood them; for there was an interpreter between them.
  • Deut 28:49 : 49 Yahweh will bring a nation against you from far, from the end of the earth, as the eagle flies; a nation whose language you shall not understand;
  • Ps 2:4 : 4 He who sits in the heavens will laugh. The Lord will have them in derision.
  • Jer 5:15 : 15 Behold, I will bring a nation on you from far, house of Israel," says Yahweh. "It is a mighty nation. It is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you don't know, neither understand what they say.
  • Acts 2:4-9 : 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. 5 Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men, from every nation under the sky. 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 Parthians, Medes, Elamites, and people from Mesopotamia, Judea, Cappadocia, Pontus, Asia, 10 Phrygia, Pamphylia, Egypt, the parts of Libya around Cyrene, visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes, 11 Cretans and Arabians: we hear them speaking in our languages the mighty works of God!"
  • 1 Cor 14:2-9 : 2 For he who speaks in another language speaks not to men, but to God; for no one understands; but in the Spirit he speaks mysteries. 3 But he who prophesies speaks to men for their edification, exhortation, and consolation. 4 He who speaks in another language edifies himself, but he who prophesies edifies the assembly. 5 Now I desire to have you all speak with other languages, but rather that you would prophesy. For he is greater who prophesies than he who speaks with other languages, unless he interprets, that the assembly may be built up. 6 But now, brothers, if I come to you speaking with other languages, what would I profit you, unless I speak to you either by way of revelation, or of knowledge, or of prophesying, or of teaching? 7 Even things without life, giving a voice, whether pipe or harp, if they didn't give a distinction in the sounds, how would it be known what is piped or harped? 8 For if the trumpet gave an uncertain sound, who would prepare himself for war? 9 So also you, unless you uttered by the tongue words easy to understand, how would it be known what is spoken? For you would be speaking into the air. 10 There are, it may be, so many kinds of sounds in the world, and none of them is without meaning. 11 If then I don't know the meaning of the sound, I would be to him who speaks a foreigner, and he who speaks would be a foreigner to me.
  • 1 Cor 14:23 : 23 If therefore the whole assembly is assembled together and all speak with other languages, and unlearned or unbelieving people come in, won't they say that you are crazy?
  • Ps 33:10 : 10 Yahweh brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.
  • Ps 55:9 : 9 Confuse them, Lord, and confound their language, for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
  • Isa 6:8 : 8 I heard the Lord's voice, saying, "Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?" Then I said, "Here I am. Send me!"
  • Job 5:12-13 : 12 He frustrates the devices of the crafty, So that their hands can't perform their enterprise. 13 He takes the wise in their own craftiness; the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.
  • Job 12:20 : 20 He removes the speech of those who are trusted, and takes away the understanding of the elders.
  • 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 10:5 : 5 Of these were the islands of the nations divided in their lands, everyone after his language, after their families, in their nations.
  • Gen 10:20 : 20 These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their languages, in their lands, in their nations.
  • Gen 10:32 : 32 These 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.
  • Gen 11:5 : 5 Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.

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  • Gen 11:1-6
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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.

    6 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.

  • Gen 11:8-9
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    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.

  • 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?

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

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

  • Zeph 3:9
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    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.

  • 1 Cor 14:21
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    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 19:13
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    13 for we will destroy this place, because the outcry against them has grown great before Yahweh that Yahweh has sent us to destroy it."

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

  • Isa 33:19
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    19 You will no longer see the fierce people, a people of a deep speech that you can't comprehend, with a strange language that you can't understand.

  • 1 Cor 14:23
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    23 If therefore the whole assembly is assembled together and all speak with other languages, and unlearned or unbelieving people come in, won't they say that you are crazy?

  • Ps 64:8
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    8 Their own tongues shall ruin them. All who see them will shake their heads.

  • Ps 73:9
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    9 They have set their mouth in the heavens. Their tongue walks through the earth.

  • Ps 55:9
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    9 Confuse them, Lord, and confound their language, for I have seen violence and strife in the city.

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

    32 These 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.

  • 1 Cor 14:9
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    9 So also you, unless you uttered by the tongue words easy to understand, how would it be known what is spoken? For you would be speaking into the air.

  • Ps 2:3
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    3 "Let's break their bonds apart, and cast their cords from us."

  • Acts 2:4
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    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.

  • Isa 6:9
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    9 He said, "Go, and tell this people, 'You hear indeed, but don't understand; and you see indeed, but don't perceive.'

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    27 that he would overthrow their seed among the nations, and scatter them in the lands.

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    28 Where are we going up? our brothers have made our heart to melt, saying, 'The people are greater and taller than we; the cities are great and fortified up to the sky; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there.'"