Genesis 11:7

New Living Translation

Come, let’s go down and confuse the people with different languages. Then they won’t be able to understand each other.”

Cross References

Genesis 1:26

Then God said, “Let us make human beings in our image, to be like us. They will reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, the livestock, all the wild animals on the earth, and the small animals that scurry along the ground.”

Genesis 10:20

These were the descendants of Ham, identified by clan, language, territory, and national identity.

Genesis 10:32

These are the clans that descended from Noah’s sons, arranged by nation according to their lines of descent. All the nations of the earth descended from these clans after the great flood.

Genesis 10:5

Their descendants became the seafaring peoples that spread out to various lands, each identified by its own language, clan, and national identity.

Genesis 11:5

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

Genesis 3:22

Then the Lord God said, “Look, the human beings have become like us, knowing both good and evil. What if they reach out, take fruit from the tree of life, and eat it? Then they will live forever!”

Genesis 42:23

Of course, they didn’t know that Joseph understood them, for he had been speaking to them through an interpreter.

Job 12:20

He silences the trusted adviser and removes the insight of the elders.

Psalm 2:4

But the one who rules in heaven laughs. The Lord scoffs at them.

Psalm 33:10

The Lord frustrates the plans of the nations and thwarts all their schemes.

Psalm 55:9

Confuse them, Lord, and frustrate their plans, for I see violence and conflict in the city.

Exodus 4:11

Then the Lord asked Moses, “Who makes a person’s mouth? Who decides whether people speak or do not speak, hear or do not hear, see or do not see? Is it not I, the Lord?

Isaiah 33:19

You will no longer see these fierce, violent people with their strange, unknown language.

Isaiah 6:8

Then I heard the Lord asking, “Whom should I send as a messenger to this people? Who will go for us?” I said, “Here I am. Send me.”

Jeremiah 5:15

O Israel, I will bring a distant nation against you,” says the Lord. “It is a mighty nation, an ancient nation, a people whose language you do not know, whose speech you cannot understand.

1 Corinthians 14:23

Even so, if unbelievers or people who don’t understand these things come into your church meeting and hear everyone speaking in an unknown language, they will think you are crazy.

Deuteronomy 28:49

“The Lord will bring a distant nation against you from the end of the earth, and it will swoop down on you like a vulture. It is a nation whose language you do not understand,