Genesis 11:7

New English Translation

Come, let’s go down and confuse their language so they won’t be able to understand each other.”

Cross References

Genesis 1:26

Then God said, “Let us make humankind in our image, after our likeness, so they may rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move on the earth.”

Genesis 10:20

These are the sons of Ham, according to their families, according to their languages, by their lands, and by their nations.

Genesis 10:32

These are the families of the sons of Noah, according to their genealogies, by their nations, and from these the nations spread over the earth after the flood.

Genesis 10:5

From these the coastlands of the nations were separated into their lands, every one according to its language, according to their families, by their nations.

Genesis 11:5

But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower that the people had started building.

Genesis 3:22

And the Lord God said, “Now that the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil, he must not be allowed to stretch out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.”

Genesis 42:23

(Now they did not know that Joseph could understand them, for he was speaking through an interpreter.)

Job 12:20

He deprives the trusted advisers of speech and takes away the discernment of elders.

Psalm 2:4

The one enthroned in heaven laughs in disgust; the Lord taunts them.

Psalm 33:10

The Lord frustrates the decisions of the nations; he nullifies the plans of the peoples.

Psalm 55:9

Confuse them, O Lord! Frustrate their plans! For I see violence and conflict in the city.

Exodus 4:11

The Lord said to him, “Who gave a mouth to man, or who makes a person mute or deaf or seeing or blind? Is it not I, the Lord?

Isaiah 33:19

You will no longer see a defiant people whose language you do not comprehend, whose derisive speech you do not understand.

Isaiah 6:8

I heard the voice of the sovereign master say, “Whom will I send? Who will go on our behalf?” I answered, “Here I am, send me!”

Jeremiah 5:15

The Lord says, “Listen, nation of Israel! I am about to bring a nation from far away to attack you. It will be a nation that was founded long ago and has lasted for a long time. It will be a nation whose language you will not know. Its people will speak words that you will not be able to understand.

1 Corinthians 14:23

So if the whole church comes together and all speak in tongues, and unbelievers or uninformed people enter, will they not say that you have lost your minds?

Deuteronomy 28:49

The Lord will raise up a distant nation against you, one from the other side of the earth as the eagle flies, a nation whose language you will not understand,