Come, let us(A) go down(B) and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”(C)

So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth,(D) and they stopped building the city. That is why it was called Babel[a](E)—because there the Lord confused the language(F) of the whole world.(G) From there the Lord scattered(H) them over the face of the whole earth.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 11:9 That is, Babylon; Babel sounds like the Hebrew for confused.

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