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Genesis 11:8

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So Yahweh scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city.

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Genesis 11:8 in other translations

So Jehovah scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off building the city.

Genesis 11:8 · American Standard Version

Genesis 11:8 in context

  1. 6Yahweh said, “Behold, they are one people, and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do.
  2. 7Come, let’s go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”
  3. 8So Yahweh scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city.
  4. 9Therefore 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.
  5. 10This is the history of the generations of Shem: Shem was one hundred years old when he became the father of Arpachshad two years after the flood.