Genesis 11:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁸ So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ So the Lord scattered them abroad from that place upon the face of the whole earth, and they gave up building the city.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ So Jehovah scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off building the city.

Common English Bible

⁸ Then the LORD dispersed them from there over all of the earth, and they stopped building the city.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ And so the Lord divided them from that place into all the lands, and they ceased to build the city.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁸ And so the Lord scattered them from that place into all lands, and they ceased to build the city.

Genesis 11:8 Cross References

Genesis 10:25

To Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided, and his brother’s name was Joktan.

Genesis 10:32

These are the families of Noah’s sons, according to their genealogies, in their nations, and from these the nations spread abroad on the earth after the flood.

Genesis 10:5

From these the coastland peoples spread. These are the descendants of Japheth in their lands, with their own language, by their families, in their nations.

Genesis 11:4

Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves; otherwise we shall be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.”

Genesis 11:9

Therefore it was called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth, and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.

Genesis 49:7

Cursed be their anger, for it is fierce, and their wrath, for it is cruel! I will divide them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel.

Psalm 33:10

The Lord brings the counsel of the nations to nothing; he frustrates the plans of the peoples.

Psalm 92:9

For your enemies, O Lord, for your enemies shall perish; all evildoers shall be scattered.

Luke 1:51

He has shown strength with his arm; he has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.

Deuteronomy 32:8

When the Most High apportioned the nations, when he divided humankind, he fixed the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the gods;