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Genesis 11:7
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KJ21
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.
AMP
Come, let Us (Father, Son, Holy Spirit) go down and there confuse and mix up their language, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.”
AMPC
Come, let Us go down and there confound (mix up, confuse) their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.
BRG
Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.
CSB
Come, let’s go down there and confuse their language so that they will not understand one another’s speech.”
CSBA
Come, let’s go down there and confuse their language so that they will not understand one another’s speech.’
CEB
Come, let’s go down and mix up their language there so they won’t understand each other’s language.”
CJB
Come, let’s go down and confuse their language, so that they won’t understand each other’s speech.”
CEV
Let's go down and confuse them! We'll make them speak different languages, and they won't be able to understand each other.
DARBY
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.
ERV
Let’s go down and confuse their language. Then they will not understand each other.”
EASY
Now we must go down to them. We must make their language become confused. Then they will not be able to understand each other.’
EHV
Come, let’s go down there and confuse their language, so that they cannot understand one another’s speech.”
ESV
Come, let us go down and there confuse their language, so that they may not understand one another's speech.”
ESVUK
Come, let us go down and there confuse their language, so that they may not understand one another's speech.”
EXB
Come, let us go down and confuse their language [L there] so they will not be able to understand each other.”
GNV
Come on, let us go down, and there confound their language, that everyone perceive not another’s speech.
GW
Let us go down there and mix up their language so that they won’t understand each other.”
GNT
Let us go down and mix up their language so that they will not understand each other.”
HCSB
Come, let Us go down there and confuse their language so that they will not understand one another’s speech.”
ICB
Come, let us go down and confuse their language. Then they will not be able to understand each other.”
ISV
Come on! Let’s go down there and confuse their language, so that they won’t understand each other’s speech.”
JUB
Now, let us go down and there confound their language that they may not understand one another’s speech.
KJV
Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
AKJV
Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.
LSB
Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another’s language.”
LEB
Come, let us go down and confuse their language there, so that they will not understand each other’s language.”
TLB
Come, let us go down and give them different languages, so that they won’t understand each other’s words!”
MSG
God took one look and said, “One people, one language; why, this is only a first step. No telling what they’ll come up with next—they’ll stop at nothing! Come, we’ll go down and garble their speech so they won’t understand each other.” Then God scattered them from there all over the world. And they had to quit building the city. That’s how it came to be called Babel, because there God turned their language into “babble.” From there God scattered them all over the world. * * *
MEV
Come, let us go down and there confuse their language, so that they may not understand one another’s speech.”
NOG
Let us go down there and mix up their language so that they won’t understand each other.”
NABRE
Come, let us go down and there confuse their language, so that no one will understand the speech of another.
NASB
Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.”
NASB1995
Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.”
NCB
Let us go down and confuse their language so that they will not understand each other when they speak.”
NCV
Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not be able to understand each other.”
NET
Come, let’s go down and confuse their language so they won’t be able to understand each other.”
NIRV
Come on! Let us go down and mix up their language. Then they will not be able to understand one another.”
NIV
Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”
NIVUK
Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.’
NKJV
Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”
NLV
Come, let Us go down and mix up their language so they will not understand what each other says.”
NLT
Come, let’s go down and confuse the people with different languages. Then they won’t be able to understand each other.”
NRSVA
Come, let us go down, and confuse their language there, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.’
NRSVACE
Come, let us go down, and confuse their language there, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.’
NRSVCE
Come, let us go down, and confuse their language there, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.”
NRSVUE
Come, let us go down and confuse their language there, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.”
OJB
Come, let Us go down, and there confuse their sefat, that they may not understand one another’s language.
RGT
“Come on. Let us go down there and confound their language, so that no one perceives another’s speech.”
RSV
Come, let us go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”
RSVCE
Come, let us go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”
TLV
Come! Let Us go down and confuse their language there, so that they will not understand each other’s language.”
VOICE
Let’s go down and break this up! If We confuse their language, they won’t be able to understand each other’s words.
WEB
Come, let’s go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”
WYC
therefore come ye, go we down, and shame we there the tongue of them, that each man hear not the voice of his neighbour. (and so come ye, let us go down there, and confuse their tongues, so that each person shall not be able to understand their neighbour’s voice.)
YLT
Give help, let us go down, and mingle there their pronunciation, so that a man doth not understand the pronunciation of his companion.'
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