Genesis 11:7

A Conservative Version

Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand each other's speech.

Cross References

Psalm 33:10

LORD brings the counsel of the nations to naught. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.

Psalm 55:9

Destroy, O LORD, divide their tongue, for I have seen violence and strife in the city.

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 birds of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that

1 Corinthians 14:23

If therefore the whole congregation comes together in the same place, and all speak in tongues, and unlearned or unbelieving men come in, will they not say that ye are mad?

Jeremiah 5:15

Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, says LORD. It is a mighty nation. It is an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou know not, nor understand what they say.

Psalm 2:4

He who sits in the heavens will laugh. LORD will have them in derision.

Job 12:20

He removes the speech of the trustworthy, and takes away the understanding of the elders.

Deuteronomy 28:49

LORD will bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as the eagle flies, a nation whose tongue thou shall not understand,

Isaiah 6:8

And I heard the voice of LORD, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then I said, I am here, send me.

Genesis 42:23

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

Genesis 11:5

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

Genesis 10:20

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

Genesis 3:22

And LORD God said, Behold, the man has 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 forever--

Genesis 10:32

These are the families of the sons of Noah, according to their generations, in their nations. And from these the nations were divided on the earth after the flood.

Genesis 10:5

From these were the islands of the nations divided in their lands, every man according to his tongue, according to their families, in their nations.

Exodus 4:11

And LORD said to him, Who has made man's mouth? Or who makes [a man] dumb, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Is it not I, LORD?

Isaiah 33:19

Thou shall not see the fierce people, a people of a deep speech that thou cannot comprehend, of a strange tongue that thou cannot understand.