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


In Context

4 They said, |Come, let's build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let's make ourselves a name, lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth.|

5 Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.

6 Yahweh said, |Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do.

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

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

9 Therefore its name was called Babel, because there Yahweh confused the language of all the earth. From there, Yahweh scattered them abroad on the surface of all the 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 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 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.