SinaiGenesis 11:7
American Standard Version
Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.
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Genesis 11:7 in other translations
Come, let’s go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”
Genesis 11:7 in context
- 5And Jehovah came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
- 6And Jehovah said, Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is what they begin to do: and now nothing will be withholden from them, which they purpose to do.
- 7Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.
- 8So Jehovah scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off building the city.
- 9Therefore was the name of it called Babel; because Jehovah did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did Jehovah scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.