Genesis 11:8

Old Testament · SCRIPTURE

Genesis 11:8

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BSB

Berean Standard Bible

So the LORD scattered them from there over the face of all the earth, and they stopped building the city.

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KJV

King James Version

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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WEB

World English Bible

So the LORD scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city.

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ASV

American Standard Version

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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READ IN CONTEXT · BSB

Genesis 11

⁶ And the LORD said, “If they have begun to do this as one people speaking the same language, then nothing they devise will be beyond them.

⁷ Come, let Us go down and confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.”

⁸ So the LORD scattered them from there over the face of all the earth, and they stopped building the city.

⁹ That is why it is called Babel, for there the LORD confused the language of the whole world, and from that place the LORD scattered them over the face of all the earth.

¹⁰ This is the account of Shem. Two years after the flood, when Shem was 100 years old, he became the father of Arphaxad.

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