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1 Now the whole world had one language and a common speech.
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1 Now the whole world had one language and a common speech.
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2 As men moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there.
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2 As men moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there.
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3 They said to each other, "Come, let's make bricks and bake them thoroughly." They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar.
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3 They said to each other, "Come, let's make bricks and bake them thoroughly." They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar.
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4 Then they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of the whole earth."
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4 Then they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of the whole earth."
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5 But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the men were building.
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5 But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the men were building.
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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.
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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.
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7 Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other."
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7 Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other."
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8 So the LORD scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city.
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8 So the LORD scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city.
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9 That is why it was called Babel--because there the LORD confused the language of the whole world. From there the LORD scattered them over the face of the whole earth.
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9 That is why it was called Babel--because there the LORD confused the language of the whole world. From there the LORD scattered them over the face of the whole earth.
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Scripture quoted by permission. Quotations designated (NIV) are from THE HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®. NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by Biblica. All rights reserved worldwide. (New International Version Bible Online) |
