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Genesis 11:7 KJV
Genesis · chapter 11 · verse 7 · King James Version
Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.Genesis 11:7 · King James Version
Genesis 11:7 in context
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.
9Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
Cross references
Key words (Strong's)
- understandshâmaʻto hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etcH8085 →
- another'srêaʻan associateH7453 →
- confoundbâlalto overflowH1101 →
- languagesâphâhthe lipH8193 →
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