SinaiGenesis 11:9
American Standard Version
Therefore 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.
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Genesis 11:9 in other translations
Therefore its name was called Babel, because there Yahweh confused the language of all the earth. From there, Yahweh scattered them abroad on the surface of all the earth.
Genesis 11:9 in context
- 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.
- 10These are the generations of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old, and begat Arpachshad two years after the flood:
- 11and Shem lived after he begat Arpachshad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.