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


In Context

5 And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of Adam were building.

6 And he said: Behold, it is one people, and all have one tongue: and they have begun to do this, neither will they leave off from their designs, till they accomplish them in deed.

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

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

9 And therefore the name thereof was called Babel, because there the language of the whole earth was confounded: and from thence the Lord scattered them abroad upon the face of all countries.

10 These are the generations of Sem: Sem was a hundred years old when he begot Arphaxad, two years old when he begot Arphaxad, 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 American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

11:8So Jehovah scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off building 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.