Genesis 11:9

Bible in Basic English 1965

So it was named Babel, because there the Lord took away the sense of all languages and from there the Lord sent them away over all the face of the earth.

Cross References

Genesis 10:10

And at the first, his kingdom was Babel and Erech and Accad and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

Genesis 10:20

All these, with their different families, languages, lands, and nations, are the offspring of Ham.

Genesis 10:25

And Eber had two sons: the name of the one was Peleg, because in his time the peoples of the earth became separate; and his brother's name was Joktan.

Genesis 10:5

From these came the nations of the sea-lands, with their different families and languages.

Psalm 55:9

Send destruction on them, O Lord, make a division of tongues among them: for I have seen fighting and violent acts in the town.

Acts 17:26

And he has made of one blood all the nations of men living on all the face of the earth, ordering their times and the limits of their lands,

1 Corinthians 14:23

If, then, the church has come together, and all are using tongues, and there come in men without knowledge or faith, will they not say that you are unbalanced?