So (A)the Lord dispersed them from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city. Therefore its name was called (B)Babel, because there the Lord confused[a] the language of all the earth. And from there the Lord dispersed them over the face of all the earth.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 11:9 Babel sounds like the Hebrew for confused

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