Genesis 11:7 - New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional Come, let us go down, and confuse their language there, so that they will not understand one another's speech.” Higit pang mga bersyonKing 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 humankind 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.”
These are the descendants of Ham, by their families, their languages, their lands, and their nations.
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.
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.
The Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which mortals had built.
Then the Lord God said, “See, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil; and now, he might reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever”—
They did not know that Joseph understood them, since he spoke with them through an interpreter.
He deprives of speech those who are trusted, and takes away the discernment of the elders.
The Lord brings the counsel of the nations to nothing; he frustrates the plans of the peoples.
Confuse, O Lord, confound their speech; for I see violence and strife in the city.
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?
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.
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!”
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.
If, therefore, the whole church comes together and all speak in tongues, and outsiders or unbelievers enter, will they not say that you are out of your mind?
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,