Genesis 11:7

KJV

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
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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 …

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Other Translations

ASV

Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.

YLT

Give help, let us go down, and mingle there their pronunciation, so that a man doth not understand the pronunciation of his companion.'

BBE

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.

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