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The Tower of Babel
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1 At first everyone spoke the same language,
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1 The whole earth was of one language and of one speech.
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1 And the whole earth was of one language and of one speech.
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1 And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.  language: Heb. lip. speech: Heb. words
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2 but after some of them moved from the east m 11.2 from the east: Or “to the east.” and settled in Babylonia,n 11.2 Babylonia: See the note at 10.6-20.
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2 It happened, as they traveled east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they lived there.
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2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.
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2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. from...: or, eastward
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3-4 they said:
Let's build a city with a tower that reaches to the sky! We'll use hard bricks and tar instead of stone and mortar. We'll become famous, and we won't be scattered all over the world.
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3 They said one to another, “Come, let’s make brick, and burn them thoroughly.” They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.
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3 And they said one to another, Come, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar.
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3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter. they said...: Heb. a man said to his neighbour burn...: Heb. burn them to a burning
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5 But when the Lord came down to look at the city and the tower,
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5 Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.
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5 And Jehovah came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
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5 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
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6 he said:
These people are working together because they all speak the same language. This is just the beginning. Soon they will be able to do anything they want.
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6 Yahweh said, “Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do.
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6 And Jehovah said, Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is what they begin to do: and now nothing will be withholden from them, which they purpose to do.
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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.
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7 Come on! Let's go down and confuse them by making them speak different languages—then they won't be able to understand each other.
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7 Come, let’s go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”
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7 Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
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7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
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8-9 So the people had to stop building the city, because the Lord confused their language and scattered them all over the earth. That's how the city of Babel o 11.8,9 Babel: In Hebrew “Babel” sounds like “confused.” got its name.
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8 So Yahweh scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city.
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8 So Jehovah scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off building the city.
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8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
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