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

And Jehovah cometh down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men have builded;

And God saith, 'Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness, and let them rule over fish of the sea, and over fowl of the heavens, and over cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that is creeping on the earth.'

And Jehovah God saith, 'Lo, the man was as one of Us, as to the knowledge of good and evil; and now, lest he send forth his hand, and have taken also of the tree of life, and eaten, and lived to the age,' --

And I hear the voice of the Lord, saying: 'Whom do I send? and who doth go for Us?' And I say, 'Here am I, send me.'

Confound

Making void thoughts of the subtile, And their hands do not execute wisdom.

Turning aside the lip of the stedfast, And the reason of the aged He taketh away.

He who is sitting in the heavens doth laugh, The Lord doth mock at them.

Jehovah made void the counsel of nations, He disallowed the thoughts of the peoples.

and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other tongues, according as the Spirit was giving them to declare.

May

By these have the isles of the nations been parted in their lands, each by his tongue, by their families, in their nations.

And they have not known that Joseph understandeth, for the interpreter is between them;

'Jehovah doth lift up against thee a nation, from afar, from the end of the earth, as the eagle it flieth; a nation whose tongue thou hast not heard,

Swallow up, O Lord, divide their tongue, For I saw violence and strife in a city.

Lo, I am bringing against you a nation from afar, O house of Israel, an affirmation of Jehovah, A nation -- strong it is, a nation -- from of old it is, A nation -- thou knowest not its tongue, Nor understandest what it speaketh.

for he who is speaking in an unknown tongue -- to men he doth not speak, but to God, for no one doth hearken, and in spirit he doth speak secrets;