Come, let’s go down there and confuse their language so that they will not understand one another’s speech.” So from there the Lord scattered them throughout the earth,(A) and they stopped building the city. Therefore it is called Babylon,[a][b](B) for there the Lord confused the language of the whole earth, and from there the Lord scattered them throughout the earth.

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Footnotes

  1. 11:9 Hb Babel
  2. 11:9 In Hb, the name for “Babylon,” babel sounds like the word for “confuse,” balal.

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