God said, *Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.*
Genesis 11:7 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) Come, let's go down, and there confuse their language, that they may 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. |
God said, *Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.*
These are the sons of Cham, after their families, after their languages, in their lands, in their nations.
These are the families of the sons of Noach, after their generations, in their nations. Of these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.
Of these were the islands of the nations divided in their lands, everyone after his language, after their families, in their nations.
The LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.
The LORD God said, *Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Now, lest he put forth his hand, and also take of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever...*
They didn't know that Yosef understood them; for there was an interpreter between them.
He removes the speech of those who are trusted, and takes away the understanding of the elders.
He who sits in the heavens will laugh. The Lord will have them in derision.
The LORD brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.
Confuse them, Lord, and confound their language, for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
The LORD said to him, *Who made man's mouth? Or who makes one mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Isn't it I, the LORD?
You will no longer see the fierce people, a people of a deep speech that you can't comprehend, with a strange language that you can't understand.
I heard the Lord's voice, saying, *Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?* Then I said, *Here I am. Send me!*
Behold, I will bring a nation on you from far, house of Yisra'el, says the LORD: it is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you don't know, neither understand what they say.
If therefore the whole assembly is assembled together and all speak with other languages, and unlearned or unbelieving people come in, won't they say that you are crazy?
The LORD will bring a nation against you from far, from the end of the earth, as the eagle flies; a nation whose language you shall not understand;