Genesis 11:9
Therefore 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 upon the face of all the earth.
KJV
Et idcirco vocatum est nomen ejus Babel, quia ibi confusum est labium universæ terræ : et inde dispersit eos Dominus super faciem cunctarum regionum.
Vulgate
διὰ τοῦτο ἐκλήθη τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ Σύγχυσις, ὅτι ἐκεῖ συνέχεεν Κύριος τὰ χείλη πάσης τῆς γῆς, καὶ ἐκεῖθεν διέσπειρεν αὐτοὺς Κύριος ὁ θεὸς ἐπὶ πρόσωπον πάσης τῆς γῆς.
LXX
Therefore was the name of it called Babel; because Jehovah did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did Jehovah scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
ASV
עַל כֵּ֞ן קָרָ֤א שְׁמָ/הּ֙ בָּבֶ֔ל כִּי שָׁ֛ם בָּלַ֥ל יְהוָ֖ה שְׂפַ֣ת כָּל הָ/אָ֑רֶץ וּ/מִ/שָּׁם֙ הֱפִיצָ֣/ם יְהוָ֔ה עַל פְּנֵ֖י כָּל הָ/אָֽרֶץ
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
14 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
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Miracle
Historic Christian voices
3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Josephus retells the Genesis narrative: creation, the fall of Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, the genealogy from Adam to Noah, the flood, the tower of Babel, and the lives of Abraham and Isaac. He follows the biblical account closely but adds rationalizing explanations and draws on extra-biblical traditions.
Cross-references
- 1Cor 14:23 — If therefore the whole church be come together into one place, and all speak with tongues, and there come in those that are unlearned, or unbelievers, will they not say that ye are mad?
- Acts 17:26 — And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;
- Gen 10:5 — By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.
- Gen 10:10 — And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
- Gen 10:10 — And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
- Gen 10:20 — These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations.
- Gen 10:25 — And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother’s name was Joktan.
- Gen 10:31 — These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations.
- Isa 13:1 — The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.
- Jer 50:1 — The word that the LORD spake against Babylon and against the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet.