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


In Context

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.

10 This is the account of Shem. Two years after the flood, when Shem was 100 years old, he became the father of Arphaxad.

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 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 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.