"Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech." — Genesis 11:7

Genesis 11:7 · KJV

“Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.”

— Genesis 11:7

And the LORD said, Behold, the people {is} one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.

Verse 8

So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.

Genesis 11 — Context

And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.

And the LORD said, Behold, the people {is} one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.

Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.

So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.

Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth. {Babel: that is, Confusion}

Cross References

Psalms 33:10

The LORD bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh the devices of the people of none effect. {bringeth: Heb. maketh frustrate}

Genesis 1:26

And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

Job 5:12-13

He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform {their} enterprise. {their enterprise: or, any thing}

Psalms 55:9

Destroy, O Lord, {and} divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.

1 Corinthians 14:2-11

For he that speaketh in an {unknown} tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God: for no man understandeth {him}; howbeit in the spirit he speaketh mysteries. {understandeth: Gr. heareth}

Genesis 42:23

And they knew not that Joseph understood {them}; for he spake unto them by an interpreter. {he spake...: Heb. an interpreter was between them}

1 Corinthians 14:23

If therefore the whole church be come together into one place, and all speak with tongues, and there come in {those that are} unlearned, or unbelievers, will they not say that ye are mad?

Acts 2:4-11

And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.