Genesis 11:7
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Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.Come, let Us go down and confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.”
In other translations
Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.Come, let Us go down and confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.”
Hebrew words
Word by word from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew reads right to left.
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- Genesis 42:23And they knew not that Joseph understood them; for he spake unto them by an interpreter.They did not realize that Joseph understood them, since there was an interpreter between them.
- 1 Corinthians 14:23If therefore the whole church be come together into one place, and all speak with tongues, and there come in those that are unlearned, or unbelievers, will they not say that ye are mad?So if the whole church comes together and everyone speaks in tongues, and some who are uninstructed or some unbelievers come in, will they not say that you are out of your minds?
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- Deuteronomy 28:49The Lord shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand;The LORD will bring a nation from afar, from the ends of the earth, to swoop down upon you like an eagle—a nation whose language you will not understand,
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