Genesis 11:7 - Easy To Read Version So let’s go down and confuse their language. Then they will not understand each other.” 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, “Now let’s make man. [6] We will make people as a copy of ourselves. People will be like us. They will rule over all the fish in the sea and the birds in the air. They will rule over all the large animals and all the little things that crawl on the earth.”
All those people were descendants [61] of Ham. All those families had their own languages and their own lands. They became separate nations.
That is the list of the families from Noah’s sons. They are arranged according to their nations. From those families came all the people who spread across the earth after the flood.
All the people who lived in the area around the Mediterranean Sea came from these sons of Japheth. Each son had his own land. All the families grew and became different nations. Each nation had its own language.
The Lord came down to see the city and the very tall building. The Lord saw the people building these things.
The Lord God said, “Look, the man has become like us—he knows about good and evil. And now the man might take the fruit from the tree of life. If the man eats that fruit, he will live forever.”
Joseph was using an interpreter to talk to his brothers. So the brothers did not know that Joseph understood their language. But Joseph heard and understood everything they said.
God makes the trusted advisers be silent.\par He takes away the wisdom of old people.\par
The Lord can make everyone’s advice useless.\par He can ruin all their plans.\par
Then the Lord said to him, “Who made a person’s mouth? And who can make a person deaf or not able to speak? Who can make a person blind? Who can make a person able to see? {I am the One who can do all these things—}I am YAHWEH. [33]
Then I heard my Lord’s voice. The Lord said, “Who can I send? Who will go for us?”
Family of Israel, this message\par is from the Lord,\par “I will soon bring a nation from far away\par to attack you.\par It is an old nation.\par It is an ancient nation.\par The people of that nation speak a language\par that you don’t know.\par You can’t understand what they say.\par
Suppose the whole church meets together and you all speak in \{different\} languages. If some people come in that are without understanding or don’t believe, then those people will say you are crazy.
“The Lord will bring a nation from far away to fight you. You will not understand their language. They will come quickly, like an eagle coming down from the sky.