Genesis 11:7

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Summary

Genesis 11:7

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

Let

Confound

Acts 2:4

May

Bible References

Let

And the Lord came down to see the town and the tower which the children of men were building.

And God said, Let us make man in our image, like us: and let him have rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over the cattle and over all the earth and over every living thing which goes flat on the earth.

And the Lord God said, Now the man has become like one of us, having knowledge of good and evil; and now if he puts out his hand and takes of the fruit of the tree of life, he will go on living for ever.

And the voice of the Lord came to my ears, saying, Whom am I to send, and who will go for us? Then I said, Here am I, send me.

Confound

Who makes the designs of the wise go wrong, so that they are unable to give effect to their purposes.

He makes the words of responsible persons without effect, and takes away the good sense of the old;

Then he whose seat is in the heavens will be laughing: the Lord will make sport of them.

The Lord undoes the designs of the nations; he makes the thoughts of the peoples without effect.

And they were all full of the Holy Spirit, and were talking in different languages, as the Spirit gave them power.

May

From these came the nations of the sea-lands, with their different families and languages.

They were not conscious that the sense of their words was clear to Joseph, for he had been talking to them through one who had knowledge of their language.

The Lord will send a nation against you from the farthest ends of the earth, coming with the flight of an eagle; a nation whose language is strange to you;

Send destruction on them, O Lord, make a division of tongues among them: for I have seen fighting and violent acts in the town.

See, I will send you a nation from far away, O people of Israel, says the Lord; a strong nation and an old nation, a nation whose language is strange to you, so that you may not get the sense of their words.

For he who makes use of tongues is not talking to men but to God; because no one has the sense of what he is saying; but in the Spirit he is talking of secret things.