Verse List for GEN 11:7

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B I ◄ ← Gen 11:7 ↓ → ► ═ ©

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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.”

OET-LV Come_NOW let _us _go _down and_let _us _confuse there their_language that not they _will _hear each the _language _of his/its_neighbour.

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 & MSB 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.’

WEBBE & WMBB 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]

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.

Moff No Moff GEN book available

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.'

Drby 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.

SLT Come, we will come down and mix their lip that they shall not hear a man the lip of his neighbor.

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

KJB-1769 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.

KJB-1611 Goe to, let vs go downe, and there cōfound their language, that they may not vnderstand one anothers speech.
(Go to, let us go down, and there cōfound their language, that they may not understand one anothers speech.)

Bshps 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 confound their language, that everye one perceive not his neighbours speech.)

Gnva 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 perceive not anothers speech.)

Cvdl 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 confound their tongue eve/even there, it one understand not what another saith/says.)

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

Luth Wohlauf, laßt uns herniederfahren und ihre Sprache daselbst verwirren, daß keiner des andern Sprache vernehme.
(Well_done, let us/to_us/ourselves descend and their/her language there confuse, that none/no_one the change language hear.)

ClVg Venite igitur, descendamus, et confundamus ibi linguam eorum, ut non audiat unusquisque vocem proximi sui.[fn]
(Come therefore, I_will_go_downus, and confundamus there tongue/language their, as not/no hear each_one/everybody voice neighbours self.)

UHB הָ֚בָ⁠ה נֵֽרְדָ֔ה וְ⁠נָבְלָ֥ה שָׁ֖ם שְׂפָתָ֑⁠ם אֲשֶׁר֙ לֹ֣א יִשְׁמְע֔וּ אִ֖ישׁ שְׂפַ֥ת רֵעֵֽ⁠הוּ׃ ‡

BrLXX Δεῦτε, καὶ καταβάντες συγχέωμεν αὐτῶν ἐκεῖ τὴν γλῶσσαν, ἵνα μὴ ἀκούσωσιν ἕκαστος τὴν φωνὴν τοῦ πλησίον.

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