Genesis 11:9

9 The place is called Babeln since that is where the Lord confused the language of the whole world. So the Lord caused them to spread out from there over the whole world.

Genesis 11:9 In-Context

7 Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not be able to understand each other."
8 So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city.
9 The place is called Babeln since that is where the Lord confused the language of the whole world. So the Lord caused them to spread out from there over the whole world.
10 This is the family history of Shem. Two years after the flood, when Shem was 100 years old, his son Arphaxad was born.
11 After that, Shem lived 500 years and had other sons and daughters.
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