Parallel Verses
Holman Bible
Come, let Us go down there and confuse
New American Standard Bible
Come,
King James Version
Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
International Standard Version
Come on! Let's go down there and confuse their language, so that they won't understand each other's speech."
A Conservative Version
Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand each other's speech.
American Standard Version
Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
Amplified
Come, let Us (Father, Son, Holy Spirit) go down and there confuse and mix up their language, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.”
Bible in Basic English
Come, let us go down and take away the sense of their language, so that they will not be able to make themselves clear to one another.
Darby Translation
Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
Julia Smith Translation
Come, we will come down and mix their lip that they shall not hear a man the lip of his neighbor.
King James 2000
Come, let us go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Come, let us go down and confuse their language there, so that they will not understand {each other's language}."
Modern King James verseion
Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, so that they cannot understand one another's speech.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Come on, let us descend and mingle their tongue even there, that one understand not what another sayeth."
NET Bible
Come, let's go down and confuse their language so they won't be able to understand each other."
New Heart English Bible
Come, let us go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech."
The Emphasized Bible
Come on! let us go down, and there confuse their speech, - that they may not under-stand, each man the speech of his friend.
Webster
Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
World English Bible
Come, let's go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech."
Youngs Literal Translation
Give help, let us go down, and mingle there their pronunciation, so that a man doth not understand the pronunciation of his companion.'
Themes
Babel » A city » Plain » Shinar » Tower » Built
Dispersion » After building the tower of babel
Language » Confusion of » Originated the varieties in
Topics
Interlinear
Yarad
Balal
Saphah
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Genesis 11:7
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Tower Of Babylon
6
The Lord said, “If they have begun to do this as one people all having the same language, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.
7 Come, let Us go down there and confuse
Phrases
Cross References
Genesis 1:26
Then God said, “Let Us
Genesis 42:23
They did not realize that Joseph understood them, since there was an interpreter between them.
Deuteronomy 28:49
The Lord will bring a nation from far away, from the ends of the earth, to swoop down on you like an eagle, a nation whose language you don’t understand,
Psalm 2:4
the Lord ridicules them.
Jeremiah 5:15
from far away against you,
house of Israel.
This is the Lord’s declaration.
It is an established nation,
an ancient nation,
a nation whose language you do not know
and whose speech you do not understand.
Genesis 3:22
The Lord God said, “Since man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil, he must not reach out, take from the tree of life, eat, and live forever.”
Genesis 10:5
The coastland peoples spread out into their lands. These are Japheth’s sons by their clans, in their nations. Each group had its own language.
Genesis 10:20
These are Ham’s sons, by their clans, according to their languages, in their own lands and their nations.
Genesis 10:32
These are the clans of Noah’s sons, according to their family records, in their nations. The nations on earth spread out from these after the flood.
Genesis 11:5
Then the Lord came down
Job 5:12-13
so that they
Job 12:20
and takes away the elders’ good judgment.
Psalm 33:10
He thwarts the plans of the peoples.
Psalm 55:9
for I see violence and strife in the city;
Isaiah 6:8
Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying:
Who will go for Us?
I said:
Acts 2:4-11
Then they were all filled
1 Corinthians 14:2-11
For the person who speaks in another language
1 Corinthians 14:23
Therefore, if the whole church assembles together and all are speaking in other languages and people who are uninformed or unbelievers come in, will they not say that you are out of your minds?