Then God said, ‘Let us make man in our image, according to our likeness. They will rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the livestock, the whole earth, and the creatures that crawl on the earth.’
Genesis 11:7 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Come, let’s go down there and confuse their language so that they will not understand one another’s speech.’ Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Come, let Us go down and there confound (mix up, confuse) their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. American Standard Version (1901) Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech. Common English Bible Come, let’s go down and mix up their language there so they won’t understand each other’s language.” Catholic Public Domain Version Therefore, come, let us descend, and in that place confound their tongue, so that they may not listen, each one to the voice of his neighbor." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Come ye, therefore, let us go down, and there confound their tongue, that they may not understand one another's speech. |
Then God said, ‘Let us make man in our image, according to our likeness. They will rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the livestock, the whole earth, and the creatures that crawl on the earth.’
These are Ham’s sons by their clans, according to their languages, in their lands and their nations.
These are the clans of Noah’s sons, according to their family records, in their nations. The nations on earth spread out from these after the flood.
From these descendants, the peoples of the coasts and islands spread out into their lands according to their clans in their nations, each with its own language.
Then the Lord came down to look over the city and the tower that the humans were building.
The Lord God said, ‘Since the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil, he must not reach out, take from the tree of life, eat, and live for ever.’
They did not realise that Joseph understood them, since there was an interpreter between them.
He deprives trusted advisers of speech and takes away the elders’ good judgement.
The Lord said to him, ‘Who placed a mouth on humans? Who makes a person mute or deaf, seeing or blind? Is it not I, the Lord?
You will no longer see the barbarians, a people whose speech is difficult to comprehend – who stammer in a language that is not understood.
Then I heard the voice of the Lord asking: Whom shall I send? Who will go for us? I said: Here I am. Send me.
I am about to bring a nation from far away against you, house of Israel. This is the Lord’s declaration. It is an established nation, an ancient nation, a nation whose language you do not know and whose speech you do not understand.
If, therefore, the whole church assembles together and all are speaking in tongues and people who are outsiders or unbelievers come in, will they not say that you are out of your minds?
The Lord will bring a nation from far away, from the ends of the earth, to swoop down on you like an eagle, a nation whose language you won’t understand,