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Genesis 11:7

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Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.

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  1. Genesis 11:5

    And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.

  2. Genesis 11:6

    And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.

  3. Genesis 11:8

    So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.

  4. Genesis 11:9

    Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

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