Genesis 11:7
World English Bible (WEB)
Come, let’s go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”
In context
5 The LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.
6 The LORD said, “Behold, they are one people, and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do.
7 Come, let’s go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”
8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city.
9 Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of all the earth. From there, the LORD scattered them abroad on the surface of all the earth.
Genesis 11:7 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- Come, let’s go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”
- KJV King James Version
- Go to, let us go down, and there confound 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.