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


In Context

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.

10 These are the generations of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old, and begat Arpachshad two years after the flood.

Genesis 11:8 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

11:8So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

11:8So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

11:8And so the Lord scattered them from that place into all lands, and they ceased to build the city.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

11:8And Jehovah scattered them thence over the face of the whole earth. And they left off building the city.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

11:8So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

11:8So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

11:8So Yahweh scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

11:8And Jehovah doth scatter them from thence over the face of all the earth, and they cease to build the city;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

11:8So the LORD scattered them abroad from there on the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.