Genesis 11:7

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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

Then Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower that {humankind} was building.

And God said, "Let us make humankind in our image and according to our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of heaven, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every moving thing that moves upon the earth."

And Yahweh God said, "Look--the man has become as one of us, to know good and evil. {What if} he stretches out his hand and takes also from the tree of life and eats, and lives forever?"

Then I heard [the] voice of the Lord saying, "Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?" And I said, "I [am] here! Send me!"

Confound

[He] is frustrating [the] devices of [the] crafty, and their hands do not achieve success.

He deprives [the] trustworthy of speech, and he takes away [the] discretion of elders.

[He who] sits [enthroned] in the heavens laughs. The Lord derides them.

Yahweh brings to nothing [the] plan of nations; he frustrates [the] intents of peoples.

And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other languages as the Spirit gave them [ability] to speak out.

May

From these the coastland peoples spread out through their lands, each according to his own language by their own families, in their nations.

Now they did not know that Joseph understood, for the interpreter [was] between them.

Yahweh will raise [up] against you a nation from far [off], from the end of the earth, [attacking] as the eagle swoops [down], {a nation whose language you will not understand},

Confuse, O Lord; divide their speech, because I see violence and strife in the city.

Look, I [am] about to bring on you a nation from afar, house of Israel," {declares} Yahweh. "It [is] an enduring nation, it [is] {an ancient nation}. A nation whose language you do not know, and you cannot understand what they speak.

For the one who speaks in a tongue does not speak to people but to God, because no one understands, but by the Spirit he speaks mysteries.