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Genesis 11:8
So Jehovah scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off building the city.
Genesis 11:8 · American Standard Version
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Genesis 11:8 in other translations
So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
So the LORD scattered them from there over the face of all the earth, and they stopped building the city.
So the LORD scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city.
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In context
5 And Jehovah came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
6 And Jehovah said, Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is what they begin to do: and now nothing will be withholden from them, which they purpose to do.
7 Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.
8 So Jehovah scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off building the city.
9 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.
10 These are the generations of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old, and begat Arpachshad two years after the flood:
11 and Shem lived after he begat Arpachshad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
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