The Lord said, “If they have begun to do this as one people all having the same language, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. Come, let Us go down there and confuse[a] their language[b] so that they will not understand one another’s speech.”[c] So from there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth,(A) and they stopped building the city.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 11:7 Or confound
  2. Genesis 11:7 Lit lip
  3. Genesis 11:7 Lit understand each man the lip of his companion

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