Come, (A)let Us go down and there (B)confuse their [a]language, so that they will not understand one another’s [b]speech.” So the Lord (C)scattered them abroad from there over the face of the whole earth; and they stopped building the city. Therefore its name was called [c](D)Babel, because there the Lord confused the [d]language of the whole earth; and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of the whole earth.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 11:7 Lit lip
  2. Genesis 11:7 Lit lip
  3. Genesis 11:9 Or Babylon; cf Heb balal, confuse
  4. Genesis 11:9 Lit lip