Genesis 11:4-9

4 They said, "Come, let us build for ourselves a city, and a tower whose top 1will reach into heaven, and let us make for ourselves 2a name, otherwise we 3will be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth."
5 4The LORD came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built.
6 The LORD said, "Behold, they are one people, and they all have 5the same language. And this is what they began to do, and now nothing * which they purpose to do will be impossible for them.
7 "Come, 6let Us go down and there 7confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another's speech."
8 So the LORD 8scattered them abroad from there over the face of the whole earth; and they stopped building the city.
9 Therefore * its name was called 9Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of the whole earth; and from there the LORD scattered them abroad over the face of the whole earth.

Cross References 9

  • 1. Deuteronomy 1:28; Deuteronomy 9:1; Psalms 107:26
  • 2. Genesis 6:4; 2 Samuel 8:13
  • 3. Deuteronomy 4:27
  • 4. Genesis 18:21; Exodus 3:8; Exodus 19:11, 18, 20
  • 5. Genesis 11:1
  • 6. Genesis 1:26
  • 7. Genesis 42:23; Exodus 4:11; Deuteronomy 28:49; Isaiah 33:19; Jeremiah 5:15
  • 8. Genesis 11:4; Psalms 92:9; Luke 1:51
  • 9. Genesis 10:10

Footnotes 6

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