Genesis 11:8
“So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence, vpon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the Citie.”
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Genesis 11:8 Context
6And the LORD said; Behold, the people is one, and they haue all one language: and this they begin to doe: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they haue imagined to doe. 7Goe to, let vs go downe, and there cōfound their language, that they may not vnderstand one anothers speech. 8So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence, vpon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the Citie. 9Therefore is the name of it called Babel, because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad vpon the face of all the earth. 10¶ These are the generations of Shem. Shem was an hundred yeres old, and begate Arphaxad two yeeres after the Flood.
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So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
- King James Version
So the LORD scattered them abroad from there over the face of the whole earth; and they stopped building the city.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
So Jehovah scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off building the city.
- American Standard Version (1901)
So the Lord God sent them away into every part of the earth: and they gave up building their town.
- Basic English Bible
And Jehovah scattered them thence over the face of the whole earth. And they left off building the city.
- Darby Bible
So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
- Webster's Bible
So Yahweh scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city.
- World English Bible
And Jehovah doth scatter them from thence over the face of all the earth, and they cease to build the city;
- Youngs Literal Bible
So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth; and they left off to build the city.
- Jewish Publication Society Bible