Genesis 11:7

English Standard Version 2016

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

Cross References

Psalm 33:10

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

Psalm 55:9

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

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 heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

1 Corinthians 14:23

If, therefore, the whole church comes together and all speak in tongues, and outsiders or unbelievers enter, will they not say that you are out of your minds?

Jeremiah 5:15

Behold, I am bringing against you a nation from afar, O house of Israel, declares 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.

Psalm 2:4

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

Job 12:20

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

Deuteronomy 28:49

The Lord will bring a nation against you from far away, from the end of the earth, swooping down like the eagle, a nation whose language you do 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 I am! Send me.”

Genesis 42:23

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

Genesis 11:5

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

Genesis 10:20

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

Genesis 3:22

Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat, and live forever—”

Genesis 10:32

These are the clans 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 in their lands, each with his own language, by their clans, in their nations.

Exodus 4:11

Then the Lord said to him, “Who has made man’s mouth? Who makes him mute, 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 that you cannot comprehend, stammering in a tongue that you cannot understand.