Parallel Verses
American Standard Version
Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another'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."
A Conservative Version
Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand each other'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 Jehovah 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 withholden from them, which they purpose to do. 7 Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. 8 So Jehovah scattered them abroad from thence 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 creepeth upon the earth.
Genesis 42:23
And they knew not that Joseph understood them; for there was an interpreter between them.
Deuteronomy 28:49
Jehovah will bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand;
Psalm 2:4
He that sitteth in the heavens will laugh: The Lord will have them in derision.
Jeremiah 5:15
Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, saith Jehovah: it is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou knowest not, neither understandest what they say.
Genesis 3:22
And Jehovah God said, Behold, the man is 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 for ever-
Genesis 10:5
Of these were the isles of the nations divided in their lands, every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.
Genesis 10:20
These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, in their nations.
Genesis 10:32
These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and of these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.
Genesis 11:5
And Jehovah came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
Job 5:12-13
He frustrateth the devices of the crafty, So that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
Job 12:20
He removeth the speech of the trusty, And taketh away the understanding of the elders.
Psalm 33:10
Jehovah bringeth the counsel of the nations to nought; He maketh the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.
Psalm 55:9
Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongue; For I have seen violence and strife in the city.
Isaiah 6:8
And I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then I said, Here am I; send me.
Acts 2:4-11
And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
1 Corinthians 14:2-11
For he that speaketh in a tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God; for no man understandeth; but in the spirit he speaketh mysteries.
1 Corinthians 14:23
If therefore the whole church be assembled together and all speak with tongues, and there come in men unlearned or unbelieving, will they not say that ye are mad?