GEN 11:7 Parallel View

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OET (OET-RV) Come on then, let’s go down and confuse their language so that they won’t be able to understand each other’s words.”

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ULT Come, let us go down and there confuse their language, so that they will not understand each other’s language.”

UST So we must go down there now and mix up their language so that they are not able to understand what they say to each other.”

BSB Come, let Us go down and confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.”

OEB Come, let us go down there and confuse their language, so that they do not understand each other’s speech.’

WEB Come, let’s go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”

NET Come, let’s go down and confuse their language so they won’t be able to understand each other.”

LSV Give help, let us go down there and confuse their language, so that a man will not understand the language of his companion.”

FBV We need to go down and mix up their language and make it confused so they won't be able to understand what they're saying to one other.”

T4T So, okay/now, we will go down there and cause there to be many different languages, so that they will not be able to understand each other.”

LEB Come, let us go down and confuse their language there, so that they will not understand each other’s language.”[fn]

?:? Literally “each the language of his companion”

BBE 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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JPS Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.'

ASV Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.

DRA Come ye, therefore, let us go down, and there confound their tongue, that they may not understand one another’s speech.

YLT Give help, let us go down, and mingle there their pronunciation, so that a man doth not understand the pronunciation of his companion.'

DBY Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.

RV Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.

WBS Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.

KJB Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.

BB Come on, let vs go downe, and there confounde their language, that euerye one perceaue not his neighbours speache.
(Come on, let us go down, and there confounde their language, that everye one perceaue not his neighbours speache.)

GNV Come on, let vs goe downe, and there confound their language, that euery one perceiue not anothers speache.
(Come on, let us go down, and there confound their language, that every one perceiue not anothers speache. )

CB Come on, let vs go downe, & cofounde their tonge eue there, yt one vnderstonde not what another saieth.
(Come on, let us go down, and cofounde their tongue eue there, it one understood not what another saieth.)

WYC and scheende we there the tunge of hem, that ech man here not the voys of his neiybore.
(and scheende we there the tunge of them, that each man here not the voys of his neighbour.)

LUT Wohlauf, laßt uns herniederfahren und ihre Sprache daselbst verwirren, daß keiner des andern Sprache vernehme.
(Wohlauf, laßt uns herniederfahren and ihre Sprache there verwirren, that keiner the change Sprache vernehme.)

CLV Venite igitur, descendamus, et confundamus ibi linguam eorum, ut non audiat unusquisque vocem proximi sui.[fn]
(Venite igitur, descendamus, and confundamus ibi linguam eorum, as not/no audiat unusquisque vocem proximi sui.)

11.7 Venite igitur, etc. Ad angelos dixisse intelligitur; vel secundum illud: Faciamus hominem ad imaginem et similitudinem nostram. Nam singulari numero subjunctum est: et divisit eos, etc., sicut ibi: Fecit Deus hominem ad imaginem et similitudinem suam. GREG. Moral. lib. 2, c. 5 Venite, etc. Dicitur his qui Deo adhærent, Venite, quia a divina contemplatione nunquam decrescere, sed semper accrescere, et nunquam corde recedere, stabili motu est semper venire. Ascendunt angeli Creatorem conspiciendo, descendunt creaturam illicite se erigentem examine districtionis premendo. Dicere ergo, Descendamus, et confundamus linguam eorum, est in semetipso quod recte agatur ostendere, et per vim internæ visionis eorum mentibus exhibenda judicia occultis motibus inspirare.

11.7 Venite igitur, etc. Ad angelos dixisse intelligitur; or after/second illud: Faciamus hominem to imaginem and similitudinem nostram. Nam singulari numero subyunctum it_is: et divided them, etc., sicut ibi: Fecit God hominem to imaginem and similitudinem suam. GREG. Moral. lib. 2, c. 5 Venite, etc. Dicitur his who Deo adhærent, Venite, because a divina contemplatione nunquam decrescere, but semper accrescere, and nunquam corde recedere, stabili motu it_is semper venire. Ascendunt angeli Creatorem conspiciendo, descendunt creaturam illicite se erigentem examine districtionis premendo. Dicere ergo, Descendamus, and confundamus linguam eorum, it_is in semetipso that recte agatur ostendere, and per vim internæ visionis eorum mentibus exhibenda yudicia occultis motibus inspirare.

BRN Come, and having gone down let us there confound their tongue, that they may not understand each the voice of his neighbour.

BrLXX Δεῦτε, καὶ καταβάντες συγχέωμεν αὐτῶν ἐκεῖ τὴν γλῶσσαν, ἵνα μὴ ἀκούσωσιν ἕκαστος τὴν φωνὴν τοῦ πλησίον.
(Deute, kai katabantes sugⱪeōmen autōn ekei taʸn glōssan, hina maʸ akousōsin hekastos taʸn fōnaʸn tou plaʸsion. )

TTN Tyndale Theme Notes:

Babel: The Dispersion of Nations

The story of the tower of Babel, whose peak was to reach to heaven, explains how nations and ethnic groups were separated by language barriers and scattered geographically. After the Flood, when God had judged an exceedingly wicked human race, humans again rebelled against their Creator by constructing a tower “that reaches into the sky” (Gen 11:4). Instead of worshiping the Lord, their intention was to exalt themselves and unify themselves apart from the Lord. God saw the danger that this posed: Their independence and arrogance would set them right back into a whirlpool of wickedness and, ultimately, destruction. So God intervened to “confuse the people with different languages” (11:7) and “[scatter] them all over the world” (11:9). Babel thus begins the history of differences and misunderstandings between peoples and nations who cannot understand one another’s languages and cultures—a separation that only begins to be reversed with the coming of the Holy Spirit (see Acts 2).

After the dispersion of the nations at Babel, God renewed his relationship with humanity in Abraham and his descendants (Gen 12:1-9). In contrast with the people at Babel, Abraham was righteous because he “believed the Lord” and lived by faith in God rather than pride in his accomplishments (15:6; 17:1; 18:19; 26:5).

Passages for Further Study

Gen 11:1-9

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