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Genesis 11:7

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We need to go down and mix up their language and make it confused so they won't be able to understand what they're saying to one other.”

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God said, “Let us make human beings in our image who are like us. They will have authority over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, and over the whole of the earth and every creature that moves on it.”

These were the sons of Ham according to their tribes, languages, lands, and nation.

These were all the tribes descended from Noah's sons, according to their genealogies and national groups. From these ancestors the different nations of the earth spread around the world after the flood.

The descendants of these ancestors spread throughout the coastal areas, each group having their own language, with their families developing into different nations.

But the Lord came down to take a look at the city and the tower that the people were building.

Then the Lord God observed, “Look, the human beings have become like one of us, knowing both what is good and what is evil. Now if they take the fruit from the tree of life and eat it, then they'll live forever!”

They didn't realize that Joseph understood what they were saying because they were talking to him through an interpreter.

He takes away the advice of trusted advisors, he removes the discernment of the elders.

But the one who sits enthroned in heaven laughs. The Lord mocks them.

The Lord foils the decisions of the nations, he frustrates the plans of the peoples,

Confuse them, Lord! Muddle what they're saying, for I see violence and conflict in the city.

“Who gave people mouths?” the Lord asked him. “Who makes people deaf or dumb, able to see or blind? It's I, the Lord, who does that.

You won't see these offensive people anymore with their barbaric language that sounds like someone stammering and is impossible to understand.

Then I heard the Lord asking, “Who shall I send? Who will go and speak for us?” So I said, “I'm here! Please send me!”

Look! I am bringing a nation from far away to attack you, people of Israel, declares the Lord. It's a powerful nation that has existed for a long time; it's a nation whose language you don't know, and when they speak you can't understand them.

If the whole church is meeting together and you are all speaking in tongues, and some people come in who don't understand, or people who don't believe, won't they say that you are insane?

The Lord will bring a nation to attack you from a long way off, from the ends of the earth. They will swoop down upon you like an eagle, this nation whose language you won't understand.




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