Genesis 11:7
Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.
Context
This verse from Genesis Chapter 11 connects to 10 cross-references. Humanity attempts to build the tower of Babel, prompting God to confuse their language and scatter them across the earth. The chapter then provides a genealogy from Shem to Abram, whose wife Sarai is barren, ending with the family's journey …
Other Translations
Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.
Give help, let us go down, and mingle there their pronunciation, so that a man doth not understand the pronunciation of his companion.'
Come, let us go down and take away the sense of their language, so that they will not be able to make themselves clear to one another.
Cross References
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the …
And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and …
By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, …
These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations.
These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and by these were the …
And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
And they knew not that Joseph understood them; for he spake unto them by an interpreter.
The Lord shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the …
He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.