Genesis 11:7 - Revised Version 1885

⁷ Go to, let us go down, and there confound 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

And 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 fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

Genesis 10:20

These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, in their nations.

Genesis 10:32

These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and of these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.

Genesis 10:5

Of these were the isles of the nations divided in their lands, every one after his tongue; after their families, in their nations.

Genesis 11:5

And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.

Genesis 3:22

And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know 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

And they knew not that Joseph understood them; for there was an interpreter between them.

Job 12:20

He removeth the speech of the trusty, And taketh away the understanding of the elders.

Psalm 2:4

He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: The Lord shall have them in derision.

Psalm 33:10

The LORD bringeth the counsel of the nations to nought: He maketh the thoughts of the peoples to be of none effect.

Psalm 55:9

Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongue: For I have seen violence and strife in the city.

Exodus 4:11

And the LORD said unto him, Who hath made man's mouth? or who maketh a man dumb, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? is it not I the LORD?

Isaiah 33:19

Thou shalt not see the fierce people, a people of a deep speech that thou canst not perceive; of a strange tongue that thou canst not 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

Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, saith the LORD: it is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou knowest not, neither understandest what they say.

1 Corinthians 14:23

If therefore the whole church be assembled together, and all speak with tongues, and there come in men unlearned or unbelieving, will they not say that ye are mad?

Deuteronomy 28:49

The LORD shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand;