Genesis 11:7

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

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

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  • Gen 1:26 : 26 And God saith, `Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness, and let them rule over fish of the sea, and over fowl of the heavens, and over cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that is creeping on the earth.'
  • Gen 42:23 : 23 And they have not known that Joseph understandeth, for the interpreter `is' between them;
  • Deut 28:49 : 49 `Jehovah doth lift up against thee a nation, from afar, from the end of the earth, as the eagle it flieth; a nation whose tongue thou hast not heard,
  • Ps 2:4 : 4 He who is sitting in the heavens doth laugh, The Lord doth mock at them.
  • Jer 5:15 : 15 Lo, I am bringing against you a nation from afar, O house of Israel, an affirmation of Jehovah, A nation -- strong it `is', a nation -- from of old it `is', A nation -- thou knowest not its tongue, Nor understandest what it speaketh.
  • Acts 2:4-9 : 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. 5 And there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men from every nation of those under the heaven, 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? 9 Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and those dwelling in Mesopotamia, in Judea also, and Cappadocia, Pontus, and Asia, 10 Phrygia also, and Pamphylia, Egypt, and the parts of Libya, that `are' along Cyrene, and the strangers of Rome, both Jews and proselytes, 11 Cretes and Arabians, we did hear them speaking in our tongues the great things of God.'
  • 1 Cor 14:2-9 : 2 for he who is speaking in an `unknown' tongue -- to men he doth not speak, but to God, for no one doth hearken, and in spirit he doth speak secrets; 3 and he who is prophesying to men doth speak edification, and exhortation, and comfort; 4 he who is speaking in an `unknown' tongue, himself doth edify, and he who is prophesying, an assembly doth edify; 5 and I wish you all to speak with tongues, and more that ye may prophecy, for greater is he who is prophesying than he who is speaking with tongues, except one may interpret, that the assembly may receive edification. 6 And now, brethren, if I may come unto you speaking tongues, what shall I profit you, except I shall speak to you either in revelation, or in knowledge, or in prophesying, or in teaching? 7 yet the things without life giving sound -- whether pipe or harp -- if a difference in the sounds they may not give, how shall be known that which is piped or that which is harped? 8 for if also an uncertain sound a trumpet may give, who shall prepare himself for battle? 9 so also ye, if through the tongue, speech easily understood ye may not give -- how shall that which is spoken be known? for ye shall be speaking to air. 10 There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is unmeaning, 11 if, then, I do not know the power of the voice, I shall be to him who is speaking a foreigner, and he who is speaking, is to me a foreigner;
  • 1 Cor 14:23 : 23 If, therefore, the whole assembly may come together, to the same place, and all may speak with tongues, and there may come in unlearned or unbelievers, will they not say that ye are mad?
  • Ps 33:10 : 10 Jehovah made void the counsel of nations, He disallowed the thoughts of the peoples.
  • Ps 55:9 : 9 Swallow up, O Lord, divide their tongue, For I saw violence and strife in a city.
  • Isa 6:8 : 8 And I hear the voice of the Lord, saying: `Whom do I send? and who doth go for Us?' And I say, `Here `am' I, send me.'
  • Job 5:12-13 : 12 Making void thoughts of the subtile, And their hands do not execute wisdom. 13 Capturing the wise in their subtilty, And the counsel of wrestling ones was hastened,
  • Job 12:20 : 20 Turning aside the lip of the stedfast, And the reason of the aged He taketh away.
  • Gen 3:22 : 22 And Jehovah God saith, `Lo, the man was as one of Us, as to the knowledge of good and evil; and now, lest he send forth his hand, and have taken also of the tree of life, and eaten, and lived to the age,' --
  • Gen 10:5 : 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 10:20 : 20 These `are' sons of Ham, by their families, by their tongues, in their lands, in their nations.
  • Gen 10:32 : 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.
  • Gen 11:5 : 5 And Jehovah cometh down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men have builded;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 11:1-6
    6 verses
    87%

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

    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.

  • Gen 11:8-9
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    86%

    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
    3 verses
    74%

    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?

  • Isa 28:11
    70%

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

  • Gen 10:5
    69%

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

  • Zeph 3:9
    68%

    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.

  • 1 Cor 14:21
    68%

    21 in the law it hath been written, that, `With other tongues and with other lips I will speak to this people, and not even so will they hear Me, saith the Lord;'

  • Gen 19:13
    68%

    13 for we are destroying this place, for their cry hath been great `before' the face of Jehovah, and Jehovah doth send us to destroy it.'

  • Acts 2:12
    67%

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

  • Isa 33:19
    67%

    19 The strong people thou seest not, A people deeper of lip than to be understood, Of a scorned tongue, there is no understanding.

  • 1 Cor 14:23
    67%

    23 If, therefore, the whole assembly may come together, to the same place, and all may speak with tongues, and there may come in unlearned or unbelievers, will they not say that ye are mad?

  • Ps 64:8
    66%

    8 And they cause him to stumble, Against them `is' their own tongue, Every looker on them fleeth away.

  • Ps 73:9
    66%

    9 They have set in the heavens their mouth, And their tongue walketh in the earth.

  • Ps 55:9
    66%

    9 Swallow up, O Lord, divide their tongue, For I saw violence and strife in a city.

  • Gen 10:31-32
    2 verses
    66%

    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.

  • 1 Cor 14:9
    66%

    9 so also ye, if through the tongue, speech easily understood ye may not give -- how shall that which is spoken be known? for ye shall be speaking to air.

  • Ps 2:3
    66%

    3 `Let us draw off Their cords, And cast from us Their thick bands.'

  • Acts 2:4
    66%

    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.

  • Isa 6:9
    66%

    9 And He saith, `Go, and thou hast said to this people, Hear ye -- to hear, and ye do not understand, And see ye -- to see, and ye do not know.

  • Ps 106:27
    66%

    27 And to cause their seed to fall among nations, And to scatter them through lands.

  • Deut 1:28
    65%

    28 whither are we going up? our brethren have melted our heart, saying, A people greater and taller than we, cities great and fenced to heaven, and also sons of Anakim -- we have seen there.