10 Bible Verses about Languages Confused
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Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.”
So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of the whole earth; and they stopped building the city. Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of the whole earth; and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of the whole earth.
From these the coastlands of the nations were separated into their lands, every one according to his language, according to their families, into their nations.
There are, perhaps, a great many kinds of languages in the world, and no kind is without meaning.
So he sent letters to all the king’s provinces, to each province according to its script and to every people according to their language, that every man should be the master in his own house and the one who speaks in the language of his own people.
Then the herald loudly proclaimed: “To you the command is given, O peoples, nations and men of every language,
Then Darius the king wrote to all the peoples, nations and men of every language who were living in all the land: “May your peace abound!
And when this sound occurred, the crowd came together, and were bewildered because each one of them was hearing them speak in his own language.
Confuse, O Lord, divide their tongues,
For I have seen violence and strife in the city.
Therefore if the whole church assembles together and all speak in tongues, and ungifted men or unbelievers enter, will they not say that you are mad?