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 on, let us build ourselves a city and a tower, the top of which may reach to the heavens; and let us make ourselves a name, lest we be scattered over the face of the whole earth.

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

6 And Jehovah said, Behold, the people is one, and have all one language; and this have they begun to do. And now will they be hindered in nothing that they meditate doing.

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

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

9 Therefore was its name called Babel; because Jehovah there confounded the language of the whole earth. And Jehovah scattered them thence over the face of the whole 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 American Standard Version 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.