Genesis 11:7
Good News Translation
Let us go down and mix up their language so that they will not understand each other."

New Revised Standard Version
Come, let us go down, and confuse their language there, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.”

Contemporary English Version
Let's go down and confuse them! We'll make them speak different languages, and they won't be able to understand each other.

New American Bible
Come, let us go down and there confuse their language, so that no one will understand the speech of another.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Come ye, therefore, let us go down, and there confound their tongue, that they may not understand one another's speech.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Come ye, therefore, let us go down, and there confound their tongue, that they may not understand one another's speech.

Go to.

let.

Genesis 11:5 And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of Adam were building.

Genesis 1:26 And he said: Let us make man to our image and likeness: and let him have dominion over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and the beasts, and the whole earth, and every creeping creature that moveth upon the earth.

Genesis 3:22 And he said: Behold Adam is become as one of us, knowing good and evil: now therefore lest perhaps he put forth his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever.

Isaiah 6:8 And I heard the voice of the Lord, saying: Whom shall I send? and who shall go for us? And I said: Lo, here am I, send me.

confound.

Job 5:12,13 Who bringeth to nought the designs of the malignant, so that their hands cannot accomplish what they had begun: . . .

Job 12:20 He changeth the speech of the true speakers, and taketh away the doctrine of the aged.

Psalm 2:4 He that dwelleth in heaven shall laugh at them: and the Lord shall deride them.

Psalm 33:10 The Lord bringeth to nought the counsels of nations; and he rejecteth the devices of people, and casteth away the counsels of princes.

Acts 2:4-11 And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost: and they began to speak with divers tongues, according as the Holy Ghost gave them to speak. . . .

may.

Genesis 10:5,20,32 By these were divided the islands of the Gentiles in their lands, every one according to his tongue and their families in their nations. . . .

Genesis 42:23 And they knew not that Joseph understood, because he spoke to them by an interpreter.

Deuteronomy 28:49 The Lord will bring upon thee a nation from afar, and from the uttermost ends of the earth, like an eagle that flyeth swiftly, whose tongue thou canst not understand,

Psalm 55:9 Cast down, O Lord, and divide their tongues; for I have seen iniquity and contradiction in the city.

Jeremiah 5:15 Behold I will bring upon you a nation from afar, O house of Israel, saith the Lord: a strong nation, an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou shalt not know, nor understand what they say.

1 Corinthians 14:2-11,23 For he that speaketh in a tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God: for no man heareth. Yet by the Spirit he speaketh mysteries. . . .

Context
The Tower of Babel
6And he said: Behold, it is one people, and all have one tongue: and they have begun to do this, neither will they leave off from their designs, till they accomplish them in deed. 7Come ye, therefore, let us go down, and there confound their tongue, that they may not understand one another's speech.8And so the Lord scattered them from that place into all lands, and they ceased to build the city.…
Cross References
Genesis 1:26
And he said: Let us make man to our image and likeness: and let him have dominion over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and the beasts, and the whole earth, and every creeping creature that moveth upon the earth.

Genesis 42:23
And they knew not that Joseph understood, because he spoke to them by an interpreter.

Exodus 4:11
The Lord said to him: Who made man's mouth? or who made the dumb and the deaf, the seeing and the blind? did not I?

Deuteronomy 28:49
The Lord will bring upon thee a nation from afar, and from the uttermost ends of the earth, like an eagle that flyeth swiftly, whose tongue thou canst not understand,

Isaiah 33:19
The shameless people thou shalt not see, the people of profound speech: so that thou canst not understand the eloquence of his tongue, in whom there is no wisdom.

Jeremiah 5:15
Behold I will bring upon you a nation from afar, O house of Israel, saith the Lord: a strong nation, an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou shalt not know, nor understand what they say.

Genesis 11:6
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