Genesis 11:7

7 Come, let us go down and confuse their language there, so that they will not understand {each other's language}."

Genesis 11:7 In-Context

5 Then Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower that {humankind} was building.
6 And Yahweh said, "Behold, {they are one people with one language}, and {this is only the beginning of what they will do}. So now nothing that they intend to do will be impossible for them.
7 Come, let us go down and confuse their language there, so that they will not understand {each other's language}."
8 So Yahweh scattered them from there over the face of the whole earth, and they stopped building the city.
9 Therefore its name was called Babel, for there Yahweh confused the language of the whole earth, and there Yahweh scattered them over the face of the whole earth.

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. Literally "each the language of his companion"
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