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Genesis 11:9

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9Therefore its name was called fBabel, because there the Lord confused1 the language of all the earth. And from there the Lord dispersed them over the face of all the earth.

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Footnotes

  1. 1Babel sounds like the Hebrew for confused

Cross references

  1. fch. 10:10

In other versions

NIVNew International Version (2011)

That is why it was called Babel—because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world. From there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Therefore it is called Babylon, for there the Lord confused the language of the whole earth, and from there the Lord scattered them throughout the earth.

NLTNew Living Translation

That is why the city was called Babel, because that is where the Lord confused the people with different languages. In this way he scattered them all over the world.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Therefore its name was called Babel, for there Yahweh confused the language of the whole earth, and there Yahweh scattered them over the face of the whole earth.

KJV 1900King James Version

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.