“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.”

Genesis 11:9 (KJV) |

Genesis 11:9

From Genesis 11, in the Book of Genesis (Old Testament).

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7

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

8

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

9

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.

10

These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:

11

And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.

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