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Genesis 11:9
English Standard Version
Genesis 11:9
English Standard Version
9 Therefore its name was called (A)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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- Genesis 11:9 Babel sounds like the Hebrew for confused
English Standard Version (ESV)
The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. ESV® Text Edition: 2016. Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.
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