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Genesis 11:6 KJV
Genesis · chapter 11 · verse 6 · King James Version
And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.Genesis 11:6 · King James Version
Genesis 11:6 in context
4And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
5And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
6And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
7Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.
8So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
Cross references
Key words (Strong's)
- restrainedbâtsarto gather grapesH1219 →
- languagesâphâhthe lipH8193 →
- imaginedzâmamto plan, usually in a bad senseH2161 →
- nothinglôʼnotH3808 →
- nothingkôlproperly, the wholeH3605 →
- peopleʻama peopleH5971 →
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