Genesis 11:1

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

And the whole earth is of one pronunciation, and of the same words,

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Referenced Verses

  • Zeph 3:9 : 9 For then do I turn unto peoples a pure lip, To call all of them by the name of Jehovah, To serve Him `with' one shoulder.
  • Acts 2:6 : 6 and the rumour of this having come, the multitude came together, and was confounded, because they were each one hearing them speaking in his proper dialect,
  • Isa 19:18 : 18 In that day there are five cities in the land of Egypt, Speaking the lip of Canaan, And swearing to Jehovah of Hosts, `The city of destruction,' is said of one.

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  • Gen 11:2-9
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    85%

    2and it cometh to pass, in their journeying from the east, that they find a valley in the land of Shinar, and dwell there;

    3and they say each one to his neighbour, `Give help, let us make bricks, and burn `them' thoroughly:' and the brick is to them for stone, and the bitumen hath been to them for mortar.

    4And they say, `Give help, let us build for ourselves a city and tower, and its head in the heavens, and make for ourselves a name, lest we be scattered over the face of all the earth.'

    5And Jehovah cometh down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men have builded;

    6and Jehovah saith, `Lo, the people `is' one, and one pronunciation `is' to them all, and this it hath dreamed of doing; and now, nothing is restrained from them of that which they have purposed to do.

    7Give help, let us go down, and mingle there their pronunciation, so that a man doth not understand the pronunciation of his companion.'

    8And Jehovah doth scatter them from thence over the face of all the earth, and they cease to build the city;

    9therefore hath `one' called its name Babel, for there hath Jehovah mingled the pronunciation of all the earth, and from thence hath Jehovah scattered them over the face of all the earth.

  • Acts 2:6-8
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    6and the rumour of this having come, the multitude came together, and was confounded, because they were each one hearing them speaking in his proper dialect,

    7and they were all amazed, and did wonder, saying one unto another, `Lo, are not all these who are speaking Galileans?

    8and how do we hear, each in our proper dialect, in which we were born?

  • Gen 10:5
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    5By these have the isles of the nations been parted in their lands, each by his tongue, by their families, in their nations.

  • Gen 1:1-2
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    1In the beginning of God's preparing the heavens and the earth --

    2the earth hath existed waste and void, and darkness `is' on the face of the deep, and the Spirit of God fluttering on the face of the waters,

  • Gen 1:9-10
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    9And God saith, `Let the waters under the heavens be collected unto one place, and let the dry land be seen:' and it is so.

    10And God calleth to the dry land `Earth,' and to the collection of the waters He hath called `Seas;' and God seeth that `it is' good.

  • 1 Chr 1:19-20
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    19And to Eber have been born two sons, the name of the one `is' Peleg, for in his days hath the land been divided, and the name of his brother is Joktan.

    20And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah,

  • Zeph 3:9
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    9For then do I turn unto peoples a pure lip, To call all of them by the name of Jehovah, To serve Him `with' one shoulder.

  • Gen 10:31-32
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    31These `are' sons of Shem, by their families, by their tongues, in their lands, by their nations.

    32These `are' families of the sons of Noah, by their births, in their nations, and by these have the nations been parted in the earth after the deluge.

  • Acts 2:4
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    4and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other tongues, according as the Spirit was giving them to declare.

  • Gen 6:1
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    1And it cometh to pass that mankind have begun to multiply on the face of the ground, and daughters have been born to them,

  • Acts 2:12
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    12And they were all amazed, and were in doubt, saying one unto another, `What would this wish to be?'

  • Gen 10:25
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    25And to Eber have two sons been born; the name of the one `is' Peleg (for in his days hath the earth been divided,) and his brother's name `is' Joktan.

  • Gen 1:6-7
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    6And God saith, `Let an expanse be in the midst of the waters, and let it be separating between waters and waters.'

    7And God maketh the expanse, and it separateth between the waters which `are' under the expanse, and the waters which `are' above the expanse: and it is so.

  • 1 Chr 1:10
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    10And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the land.

  • Acts 2:1
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    1And in the day of the Pentecost being fulfilled, they were all with one accord at the same place,

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

  • Gen 1:15
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    15and they have been for luminaries in the expanse of the heavens to give light upon the earth:' and it is so.

  • Gen 14:1
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    1And it cometh to pass in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goyim,

  • Isa 28:11
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    11For by scorned lip, and by another tongue, Doth He speak unto this people.

  • Gen 9:19
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    19These three `are' sons of Noah, and from these hath all the earth been overspread.

  • Gen 2:1
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    1And the heavens and the earth are completed, and all their host;