7Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.


In Context

4 And they said, Come, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven, and let us make us a name; lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.

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

6 And Jehovah said, Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is what they begin to do: and now nothing will be withholden from them, which they purpose to do.

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

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

9 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.

Genesis 11:7 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

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

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

11:7Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other."

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

11:7Come ye, therefore, let us go down, and there may not understand one another's speech.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

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

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

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

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

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

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

11:7Come, let's go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

11:7Give help, let us go down, and mingle there their pronunciation, so that a man doth not understand the pronunciation of his companion.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

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