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


In Context

4 Then they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of the whole earth."

5 But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower that the men were building.

6 The Lord said, "If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.

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

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

9 That is why it was called Babel - because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world. From there the Lord scattered them 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 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 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.