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Genesis 11:7-9
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Genesis 11:7-9
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
7 Come, let us go down and confuse their language there, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.”(A) 8 So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city.(B) 9 Therefore it was called Babel,[a] because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth, and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.(C)
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- 11.9 In Heb Babel is a play on the verb meaning to confuse
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