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In that way, the Lord scattered them all over the world, and they stopped building the city.

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51 His mighty arm has done tremendous things!
    He has scattered the proud and haughty ones.

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When the Most High assigned lands to the nations,
    when he divided up the human race,
he established the boundaries of the peoples
    according to the number in his heavenly court.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 32:8 As in Dead Sea Scrolls, which read the number of the sons of God, and Greek version, which reads the number of the angels of God; Masoretic Text reads the number of the sons of Israel.

Conclusion

32 These are the clans that descended from Noah’s sons, arranged by nation according to their lines of descent. All the nations of the earth descended from these clans after the great flood.

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25 Eber had two sons. The first was named Peleg (which means “division”), for during his lifetime the people of the world were divided into different language groups. His brother’s name was Joktan.

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That is why the city was called Babel,[a] because that is where the Lord confused the people with different languages. In this way he scattered them all over the world.

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Footnotes

  1. 11:9 Or Babylon. Babel sounds like a Hebrew term that means “confusion.”

Then they said, “Come, let’s build a great city for ourselves with a tower that reaches into the sky. This will make us famous and keep us from being scattered all over the world.”

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A curse on their anger, for it is fierce;
    a curse on their wrath, for it is cruel.
I will scatter them among the descendants of Jacob;
    I will disperse them throughout Israel.

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