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Genesis 11:7

NETBible	Come, let’s go down and confuse¹ their language so they won’t be able to understand each other.”²
NIV © biblegateway Gen 11:7	Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other."
NASB © biblegateway Gen 11:7	"Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another’s speech."
NLT © biblegateway Gen 11:7	Come, let’s go down and give them different languages. Then they won’t be able to understand each other."
MSG © biblegateway Gen 11:7	Come, we'll go down and garble their speech so they won't understand each other."
BBE © SABDAweb Gen 11:7	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.
NRSV © bibleoremus Gen 11:7	Come, let us go down, and confuse their language there, so that they will not understand one another’s speech."
NKJV © biblegateway Gen 11:7	"Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech."
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KJV	Go to <03051> (8798)_, let us go down <03381> (8799)_, and there confound <01101> (8799) their language <08193>_, that <0834> they may not understand <08085> (8799) one <0376> another's <07453> speech <08193>_.
NASB © biblegateway Gen 11:7	"Come <03051> , let Us go <03381> down <03381> and there <08033> confuse <01101> their language <08193> , so <0834> that they will not understand <08085> one <0376> another's <07453> speech <08193> ."
LXXM	deute <1205> ADV kai <2532> CONJ katabantev <2597> V-AAPNP sugcewmen <4797> V-PAS-1P ekei <1563> ADV autwn <846> D-GPM thn <3588> T-ASF glwssan <1100> N-ASF ina <2443> CONJ mh <3165> ADV akouswsin <191> V-AAS-3P ekastov <1538> A-NSM thn <3588> T-ASF fwnhn <5456> N-ASF tou <3588> T-GSM plhsion <4139> ADV
NET [draft] ITL	Come <03051> , let’s go down <03381> and confuse <01101> their language <08193> so <0834> they won’t <03808> be able to understand <08085> each other <07453> <08193> <0582> .”
HEBREW	wher <07453> tpv <08193> sya <0582> wemsy <08085> al <03808> rsa <0834> Mtpv <08193> Ms <08033> hlbnw <01101> hdrn <03381> hbh (11:7) <03051>

NETBible

Come, let’s go down and confuse¹ their language so they won’t be able to understand each other.”²

NET Notes

¹tn The cohortatives mirror the cohortatives of the people. They build to ascend the heavens; God comes down to destroy their language. God speaks here to his angelic assembly. See the notes on the word “make” in 1:26 and “know” in 3:5, as well as Jub. 10:22-23, where an angel recounts this incident and says “And the Lord our God said to us…. And the Lord went down and we went down with him. And we saw the city and the tower which the sons of men built.” On the chiastic structure of the story, see G. J. Wenham, Genesis (WBC), 1:235.

²tn Heb “they will not hear, a man the lip of his neighbor.”