Genesis 11:7

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Come, let us go down and confuse their language there, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.”

Cross References

Genesis 1:26

Then God said, “Let us make humans in our image, according to our likeness, and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over the cattle and over all the wild animals of the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.”

Genesis 10:20

These are the descendants of Ham, by their families, their languages, their lands, and their nations.

Genesis 10:32

These are the families of Noah’s sons, according to their genealogies, in their nations, and from these the nations spread abroad on the earth after the flood.

Genesis 10:5

From these the coastland peoples spread. These are the descendants of Japheth in their lands, with their own language, by their families, in their nations.

Genesis 11:5

The Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which mortals had built.

Genesis 3:22

Then the Lord God said, “See, the humans have become like one of us, knowing good and evil, and now they might reach out their hands and take also from the tree of life and eat and live forever”—

Genesis 42:23

They did not know that Joseph understood them, since he spoke with them through an interpreter.

Job 12:20

He deprives of speech those who are trusted and takes away the discernment of the elders.

Psalm 2:4

He who sits in the heavens laughs; the Lord has them in derision.

Psalm 33:10

The Lord brings the counsel of the nations to nothing; he frustrates the plans of the peoples.

Psalm 55:9

Confuse, O Lord, confound their speech, for I see violence and strife in the city.

Exodus 4:11

Then the Lord said to him, “Who gives speech to mortals? Who makes them mute or deaf, seeing or blind? Is it not I, the Lord?

Isaiah 33:19

No longer will you see the insolent people, the people of an obscure speech that you cannot comprehend, stammering in a language that you cannot understand.

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

I am going to bring upon you a nation from far away, O house of Israel, says the Lord. It is an enduring nation; it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you do not know, nor can you understand what they say.

1 Corinthians 14:23

If, therefore, the entire church comes together and all speak in tongues, and outsiders or unbelievers enter, will they not say that you are out of your mind?

Deuteronomy 28:49

The Lord will bring a nation from far away, from the end of the earth, to swoop down on you like an eagle, a nation whose language you do not understand,