Genesis 11:7

God's Word

Let us go down there and mix up their language so that they won’t understand each other.”

Cross References

Genesis 1:26

Then God said, “Let us make humans in our image, in our likeness. Let them rule the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, the domestic animals all over the earth, and all the animals that crawl on the earth.”

Genesis 10:20

These were Ham’s descendants by families and languages within their countries and nations.

Genesis 10:32

These were the families of Noah’s sons listed by their genealogies, nation by nation. From these ⌞descendants⌟ the nations spread over the earth after the flood.

Genesis 10:5

From these descendants the people of the coastlands spread into their own countries. Each nation had its own language and families.

Genesis 11:5

The Lord came down to see the city and the tower that the descendants of Adam were building.

Genesis 3:22

Then the Lord God said, “The man has become like one of us, since he knows good and evil. He must not reach out and take the fruit from the tree of life and eat. Then he would live forever.”

Genesis 42:23

They didn’t know that Joseph could understand them, because he was speaking through an interpreter.

Job 12:20

He makes trusted advisers unable to speak and takes away the good judgment of respected leaders.

Psalm 2:4

The one enthroned in heaven laughs. The Lord makes fun of them.

Psalm 33:10

The Lord blocks the plans of the nations. He frustrates the schemes of the people of the world.

Psalm 55:9

Completely confuse their language, O Lord, because I see violence and conflict in the city.

Exodus 4:11

The Lord asked him, “Who gave humans their mouths? Who makes humans unable to talk or hear? Who gives them sight or makes them blind? It is I, the Lord!

Isaiah 33:19

You will no longer see those savage people, those people with an unrecognizable language, with a foreign language that you can’t understand.

Isaiah 6:8

Then I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, “Whom will I send? Who will go for us?” I said, “Here I am. Send me!”

Jeremiah 5:15

Nation of Israel, I’m going to bring a nation from far away to attack you, declares the Lord. It is a nation that has lasted a long time. It is an ancient nation. You don’t know the language of this nation. You can’t understand what its people say.

1 Corinthians 14:23

Suppose the whole congregation gathers in the same place and you speak in other languages. When outsiders or unbelievers come in, won’t they say that you’re out of your mind?

Deuteronomy 28:49

The Lord will bring against you a nation from far away, from the ends of the earth. The nation will swoop down on you like an eagle. It will be a nation whose language you won’t understand.