Genesis 11:8
King James Version (KJV)
So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
In context
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.
10 These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:
Genesis 11:8 in every translation
- 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.
- WEB World English Bible
- So the LORD scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- So the LORD scattered them from there over the face of all the earth, and they stopped building the city.
- 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.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- And Jehovah doth scatter them from thence over the face of all the earth, and they cease to build the city;
- DBY Darby Translation
- And Jehovah scattered them thence over the face of the whole earth. And they left off building the city.
- WBS Webster Bible
- So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.