Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand each other's speech.
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.
Holman Bible
Come, let Us go down there and confuse
International Standard Version
Come on! Let's go down there and confuse their language, so that they won't 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 And LORD said, Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is what they begin to do. And now nothing will be withheld from them, which they propose to do. 7 Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand each other's speech. 8 So LORD scattered them abroad from there upon the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city.
Phrases
Cross References
Genesis 1:26
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 birds of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that
Genesis 42:23
And they did not know that Joseph understood them, for there was an interpreter between them.
Deuteronomy 28:49
LORD will bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as the eagle flies, a nation whose tongue thou shall not understand,
Psalm 2:4
He who sits in the heavens will laugh. LORD will have them in derision.
Jeremiah 5:15
Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, says LORD. It is a mighty nation. It is an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou know not, nor understand what they say.
Genesis 3:22
And LORD God said, Behold, the man has become as one of us--to know good and evil--and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever--
Genesis 10:5
From these were the islands of the nations divided in their lands, every man according to his tongue, according to their families, in their nations.
Genesis 10:20
These are the sons of Ham, according to their families, according to their tongues, in their lands, in their nations.
Genesis 10:32
These are the families of the sons of Noah, according to their generations, in their nations. And from these the nations were divided on the earth after the flood.
Genesis 11:5
And LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the sons of men built.
Job 5:12-13
He frustrates the devices of the crafty so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
Job 12:20
He removes the speech of the trustworthy, and takes away the understanding of the elders.
Psalm 33:10
LORD brings the counsel of the nations to naught. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.
Psalm 55:9
Destroy, O LORD, divide their tongue, for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
Isaiah 6:8
And I heard the voice of LORD, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then I said, I am here, send me.
Acts 2:4-11
And they were all filled of Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them to declare.
1 Corinthians 14:2-11
For he who speaks in a tongue speaks not to men, but to God, for no man hears, but in spirit he speaks mysteries.
1 Corinthians 14:23
If therefore the whole congregation comes together in the same place, and all speak in tongues, and unlearned or unbelieving men come in, will they not say that ye are mad?