Genesis 11:7 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁷ Come, let us go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ Come, let Us go down and there confound (mix up, confuse) their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.

Common English Bible

⁷ Come, let’s go down and mix up their language there so they won’t understand each other’s language.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ Therefore, come, let us descend, and in that place confound their tongue, so that they may not listen, each one to the voice of his neighbor."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁷ Come ye, therefore, let us go down, and there confound their tongue, that they may not understand one another's speech.

Genesis 11:7 Cross References

Genesis 1:26

Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.”

Genesis 10:20

These are the sons of Ham, by their families, their languages, their lands, and their nations.

Genesis 10:32

These are the families of the sons of Noah, 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 sons of Japheth in their lands, each with his own language, by their families, in their nations.

Genesis 11:5

And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the sons of men had built.

Genesis 3:22

Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil; and now, lest he put forth his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever” —

Genesis 42:23

They did not know that Joseph understood them, for there was an interpreter between them.

Job 12:20

He deprives of speech those who are trusted, and takes away the discernment of the elders.

Psalm 2:4

He who sits in the heavens laughs; the Lord has them in derision.

Psalm 33:10

The Lord brings the counsel of the nations to naught; he frustrates the plans of the peoples.

Psalm 55:9

Destroy their plans, O Lord, confuse their tongues; for I see violence and strife in the city.

Exodus 4:11

Then the Lord said to him, “Who has made man's mouth? Who makes him dumb, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Is it not I, the Lord?

Isaiah 33:19

You will see no more the insolent people, the people of an obscure speech which you cannot comprehend, stammering in a tongue which you cannot understand.

Isaiah 6:8

And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?” Then I said, “Here am I! Send me.”

Jeremiah 5:15

Behold, I am bringing upon you a nation from afar, O house of Israel, says the Lord. It is an enduring nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you do not know, nor can you understand what they say.

1 Corinthians 14:23

If, therefore, the whole church assembles and all speak in tongues, and outsiders or unbelievers enter, will they not say that you are mad?

Deuteronomy 28:49

The Lord will bring a nation against you from afar, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flies, a nation whose language you do not understand,