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Genesis 11:8
So the LORD scattered them from there over the face of all the earth, and they stopped building the city.
Genesis 11:8 · Berean Standard Bible
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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 abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. 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 Then the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the sons of men were building.
6 And the LORD said, “If they have begun to do this as one people speaking the same language, then nothing they devise will be beyond them.
7 Come, let Us go down and confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.”
8 So the LORD scattered them from there over the face of all the earth, and they stopped building the city.
9 That is why it is called Babel, for there the LORD confused the language of the whole world, and from that place the LORD scattered them over the face of all the earth.
10 This is the account of Shem. Two years after the flood, when Shem was 100 years old, he became the father of Arphaxad.
11 And after he had become the father of Arphaxad, Shem lived 500 years and had other sons and daughters.
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