Genesis 11:7

New International Version

Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”

Cross References

Genesis 1:26

Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”

Genesis 10:20

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

Genesis 10:32

These are the clans of Noah’s sons, according to their lines of descent, within their nations. From these the nations spread out over the earth after the flood.

Genesis 10:5

(From these the maritime peoples spread out into their territories by their clans within their nations, each with its own language.)

Genesis 11:5

But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower the people were building.

Genesis 3:22

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

Genesis 42:23

They did not realize that Joseph could understand them, since he was using an interpreter.

Job 12:20

He silences the lips of trusted advisers and takes away the discernment of elders.

Psalm 2:4

The One enthroned in heaven laughs; the Lord scoffs at them.

Psalm 33:10

The Lord foils the plans of the nations; he thwarts the purposes of the peoples.

Psalm 55:9

Lord, confuse the wicked, confound their words, for I see violence and strife in the city.

Exodus 4:11

The Lord said to him, “Who gave human beings their mouths? Who makes them deaf or mute? Who gives them sight or makes them blind? Is it not I, the Lord?

Isaiah 33:19

You will see those arrogant people no more, people whose speech is obscure, whose language is strange and incomprehensible.

Isaiah 6:8

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

Jeremiah 5:15

People of Israel,” declares the Lord, “I am bringing a distant nation against you— an ancient and enduring nation, a people whose language you do not know, whose speech you do not understand.

1 Corinthians 14:23

So if the whole church comes together and everyone speaks in tongues, and inquirers or unbelievers come in, will they not say that you are out of your mind?

Deuteronomy 28:49

The Lord will bring a nation against you from far away, from the ends of the earth, like an eagle swooping down, a nation whose language you will not understand,