Parallel Verses
King James 2000
Come, let us go down, and there confuse 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.
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.
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
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 the LORD said, Behold, the people are one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. 7 Come, let us go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. 8 So the 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 fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.
Genesis 42:23
And they knew not that Joseph understood them; for he spoke unto them by an interpreter.
Deuteronomy 28:49
The LORD shall bring a nation against you from afar, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flies; a nation whose tongue you shall not understand;
Psalm 2:4
He that sits in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.
Jeremiah 5:15
Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from afar, O house of Israel, says the LORD: it is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you know not, neither understand what they say.
Genesis 3:22
And the LORD 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 forever:
Genesis 10:5
By these were the coastlands of the nations divided in their lands; everyone 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 countries, and in their nations.
Genesis 10:32
These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.
Genesis 11:5
And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.
Job 5:12-13
He frustrates the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their plans.
Job 12:20
He takes away the speech of the trustworthy, and takes away the understanding of the aged.
Psalm 33:10
The LORD brings the counsel of the nations to nothing: he makes the devices of the people of none effect.
Psalm 55:9
Destroy, O Lord, and confuse their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
Isaiah 6:8
Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, 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 speaks in an unknown tongue speaks not unto men, but unto God: for no man understands him; but in the spirit he speaks mysteries.
1 Corinthians 14:23
If therefore the whole church be come together into one place, and all speak with tongues, and there come in those that are unlearned, or unbelievers, will they not say that you are mad?