Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, so that they cannot 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.
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 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! The people is one and they all have one language. And this they begin to do. And now nothing which they have imagined to do will be restrained from them. 7 Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, so that they cannot understand one another's speech. 8 So Jehovah scattered them abroad from that place upon the face of all the earth. And they quit 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 heavens, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over all the creepers creeping on the earth.
Genesis 42:23
And they did not know that Joseph understood, for the interpreter was between them.
Deuteronomy 28:49
Jehovah shall bring a nation against you from far, from the end of the earth, as the eagle flies; a nation whose tongue you shall not understand,
Psalm 2:4
He who sits in the heavens shall laugh; Jehovah shall mock at them.
Jeremiah 5:15
Lo, I will bring a nation on you from afar, O house of Israel, says Jehovah. It is an enduring nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you do not know, nor understand what they say.
Genesis 3:22
And Jehovah 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
By these were the coasts of the nations divided in their lands, every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.
Genesis 10:20
These were 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 from 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 sons of Adam had built.
Job 5:12-13
frustrating the plans of the crafty, nor did their hands do wisely.
Job 12:20
He removes the speech of the men of trust, and takes away the understanding of the aged.
Psalm 33:10
Jehovah brings the counsel of the nations to nothing; He breaks the plots of the people.
Psalm 55:9
Swallow up, O Jehovah, and divide their tongues; for I have seen violence and fighting 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 of the Holy Spirit, and began to speak in other languages, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
1 Corinthians 14:2-11
For he who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to God. For no one hears, but in spirit he speaks mysteries.
1 Corinthians 14:23
Therefore if the whole church has come together, and all speak in languages, and if uninstructed ones or unbelievers come in, will they not say that you rave?