Genesis 11:7

Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.

Go to {H3051}, let us go down {H3381}, and there confound {H1101} their language {H8193}, that {H834} they may not understand {H8085} one {H376} another's {H7453} speech {H8193}.

Come, let’s go down and confuse their language, so that they won’t understand each other’s speech.”

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

Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.

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Cross-References

  • Psalms 33:10 (9 votes)

    The LORD bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh the devices of the people of none effect.

  • Psalms 55:9 (7 votes)

    ¶ Destroy, O Lord, [and] divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.

  • Job 5:12 (6 votes)

    He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform [their] enterprise.

  • Job 5:13 (6 votes)

    He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.

  • Genesis 1:26 (5 votes)

    ¶ And 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 fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

  • Acts 2:4 (4 votes)

    And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.

  • Acts 2:11 (4 votes)

    Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God.