Genesis 11:7

7 Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”

Genesis 11:7 in Other Translations

KJV
7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
ESV
7 Come, let us go down and there confuse their language, so that they may not understand one another's speech."
NLT
7 Come, let’s go down and confuse the people with different languages. Then they won’t be able to understand each other.”
MSG
7 Come, we'll go down and garble their speech so they won't understand each other."
CSB
7 Come, let Us go down there and confuse their language so that they will not understand one another's speech."

Genesis 11:7 In-Context

5 But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower the people were building.
6 The LORD said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.
7 Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”
8 So the LORD scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city.
9 That is why it was called Babel —because there the LORD confused the language of the whole world. From there the LORD scattered them over the face of the whole earth.

Cross References 3

  • 1. S Genesis 1:26
  • 2. S ver 5
  • 3. Genesis 42:23; Deuteronomy 28:49; Isaiah 28:11; Isaiah 33:19; Jeremiah 5:15; 1 Corinthians 14:2,11
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