10 Bible Verses about Languages Confused
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Now, let us go down and there confound their language that they may not understand one another's speech.
So the LORD scattered them abroad from there upon the face of all the earth, and they left off to build the city. Therefore the name of it was called Babel because there the LORD confounded the language of all the earth, and from there the LORD scattered them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands, each one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.
There are many kinds of distinct voices in the world, and nothing is dumb.
for he sent letters into all the king's provinces, into every province according to the writing thereof, and to every people after their language, saying, That every man should bear rule in his own house and that it should be published according to the language of every people.
Then a herald cried aloud, To you it is commanded, O people, nations, and languages,
Then king Darius wrote unto all the peoples, nations, and tongues, that dwell in all the earth: Peace be multiplied unto you.
Now at this sound, the multitude came together and were confounded because each one heard them speak in his own tongue.
Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues, for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
If, therefore, the whole congregation is 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 ye are mad?