Genesis 11:8
King James Version
Translation: KJV
6And 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.Select Genesis 11:6
7Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.Select Genesis 11:7
8So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.Select Genesis 11:8
9Therefore 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.Select Genesis 11:9
10These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:Select Genesis 11:10
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WEB
11:8 So Yahweh scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city.
ASV
11:8 So Jehovah scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off building the city.
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