Genesis 11:7
King James Version (KJV)
Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.
In context
5 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
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.
7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.
8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
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.
Genesis 11:7 in every translation
- KJV King James Version
- Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.
- WEB World English Bible
- Come, let’s go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- Come, let Us go down and confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.”
- ASV American Standard Version
- Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- Give help, let us go down, and mingle there their pronunciation, so that a man doth not understand the pronunciation of his companion.'
- DBY Darby Translation
- Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
- WBS Webster Bible
- Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.