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Genesis 11:7-9
Good News Translation
Genesis 11:7-9
Good News Translation
7 Let us go down and mix up their language so that they will not understand each other.” 8 So the Lord scattered them all over the earth, and they stopped building the city. 9 The city was called Babylon,[a] because there the Lord mixed up the language of all the people, and from there he scattered them all over the earth.
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- Genesis 11:9 This name sounds like the Hebrew for “mixed up.”
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