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