Genesis Chapter 11 verse 7 Holy Bible
Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
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Come, let us go down and take away the sense of their language, so that they will not be able to make themselves clear to one another.
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Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
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Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
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Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
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Come, let's go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech."
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Give help, let us go down, and mingle there their pronunciation, so that a man doth not understand the pronunciation of his companion.'
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 7. - Go to. An ironical contrast to the "Go to" of the builders (Lange). Let us (cf. Genesis 1:26) go down, and there confound their language (vide infra, ver. 9), that they may not understand (literally, hear; so Genesis 42:23; Isaiah 36:11; 1 Corinthians 14:2) one another's speech. Not referring to individuals (singuli homines), since then society were impossible, but to families or nations (singulae cognationes), which each had its own tongue (Poole).
