Genesis 11:5-9

5 But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower the people were building.
6 The LORD said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.
7 Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”
8 So the LORD scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city.
9 That is why it was called Babel[a] —because there the LORD confused the language of the whole world. From there the LORD scattered them over the face of the whole earth.

Cross References 10

  • 1. ver 7; Genesis 18:21; Exodus 3:8; Exodus 19:11,18,20; Psalms 18:9; Psalms 144:5
  • 2. S ver 1
  • 3. S Genesis 1:26
  • 4. S ver 5
  • 5. Genesis 42:23; Deuteronomy 28:49; Isaiah 28:11; Isaiah 33:19; Jeremiah 5:15; 1 Corinthians 14:2,11
  • 6. S Genesis 9:19; Deuteronomy 32:8; S Luke 1:51
  • 7. S Genesis 10:10
  • 8. Psalms 55:9
  • 9. Acts 2:5-11
  • 10. Isaiah 2:10,21; Isaiah 13:14; Isaiah 24:1

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. That is, Babylon; "Babel" sounds like the Hebrew for "confused" .
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