Genesis 11:7
Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.
Genesis 11:7 in other translations
| BSB | Come, let Us go down and confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.” |
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| WEB | Come, let’s go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.” |
| ASV | Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech. |
| YLT | Give help, let us go down, and mingle there their pronunciation, so that a man doth not understand the pronunciation of his companion.' |
| DARBY | Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. |
| BBE | Come, let us go down and take away the sense of their language, so that they will not be able to make themselves clear to one another. |
| Webster | Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. |
What does Genesis 11:7 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Genesis 11:5-9
Here is an expression after the manner of men; The Lord came down to see the city. God is just and fair in all he does against sin and sinners, and condemns none unheard. Pious Eber is not found among this ungodly crew; for he and his are called the children of God; their souls joined not themselves to the assembly of these children of men. God suffered them to go on some way, that the works of their hands, from…
Genesis 11:7 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Genesis 11:7
- Psalms 33:10
The Lord bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh the devices of the people of none effect.
- Job 5:12-13
He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise. He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.
- 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.
- 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. But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men to edification, and exhortation, and comfort. He that speaketh in an unknown tongue edifieth himself; but he that prophesieth edifieth the church. I would that ye all spake with tongues, but rather that ye prophesied: for greater is he that prophesieth than he that speaketh with tongues, except he interpret, that the church may receive edifying. …
- Genesis 42:23
And they knew not that Joseph understood them; for he spake unto them by an interpreter.
- 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. And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven. Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language. And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these which speak Galileans? …
- Job 12:20
He removeth away the speech of the trusty, and taketh away the understanding of the aged.
- Psalms 2:4
He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.
- Genesis 3:22
And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:
- Deuteronomy 28:49
The Lord shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand;
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
let.
5; 1:26; 3:22; Isa 6:8
confound.
Job 5:12,13; 12:20; Ps 2:4; 33:10; Ac 2:4-11
may.
10:5,20,32; 42:23; De 28:49; Ps 55:9; Jer 5:15; 1Co 14:2-11,23
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Context
- Genesis 11:6
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.
- Genesis 11:7
Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.
- Genesis 11:8
So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
Genesis 11:7 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Ahora pues, descendamos, y confundamos allí sus lenguas, para que ninguno entienda el habla de su compañero. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Allons, descendons, et confondons là leur langage, afin qu’ils n’entendent pas le langage l’un de l’autre. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Wohlan, laßt uns herniederfahren und ihre Sprache daselbst verwirren, daß sie einer des anderen Sprache nicht verstehen! |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Venite igitur, descendamus, et confundamus ibi linguam eorum, ut non audiat unusquisque vocem proximi sui. |