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Genesis 11:8-9
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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
Deuteronomy 32:8-9
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Deuteronomy 32:8-9
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8 When the Most High (A)gave to the nations their inheritance,
when he (B)divided mankind,
he fixed the borders[a] of the peoples
according to the number of the sons of God.[b]
9 But the Lord's portion is his people,
Jacob his allotted heritage.
Footnotes
- Deuteronomy 32:8 Or territories
- Deuteronomy 32:8 Compare Dead Sea Scroll, Septuagint; Masoretic Text sons of Israel
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