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Genesis 11:8-9
English Standard Version
Genesis 11:8-9
English Standard Version
8 So (A)the Lord dispersed them from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city. 9 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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- Genesis 11:9 Babel sounds like the Hebrew for confused
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