Genesis 11:8
World English Bible (WEB)
So the LORD scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city.
In context
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.
10 This is the history of the generations of Shem: Shem was one hundred years old when he became the father of Arpachshad two years after the flood.
Genesis 11:8 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- So the LORD scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city.
- 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.
- 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.