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%

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

    3 and 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.

    4 And 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.'

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

    6 and 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.

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

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

    9 therefore 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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    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,

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

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

  • Gen 10:5
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    5 By 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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    1 In the beginning of God's preparing the heavens and the earth --

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

    10 And 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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    19 And 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.

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

  • Zeph 3:9
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    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.

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

    32 These `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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    4 and 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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    1 And 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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    12 And 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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    25 And 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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    6 And God saith, `Let an expanse be in the midst of the waters, and let it be separating between waters and waters.'

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

  • Acts 2:1
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    1 And 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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    25 Eber, Peleg, Reu,

  • Gen 1:15
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    15 and 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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    1 And 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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    11 For by scorned lip, and by another tongue, Doth He speak unto this people.

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

  • Gen 2:1
    68%

    1 And the heavens and the earth are completed, and all their host;