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Genesis 11:6
Genesis 11:6 is verse 6 of Genesis chapter 11, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
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.
King James Version
And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
World English Bible
Yahweh said, “Behold, they are one people, and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do.
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Genesis 11:4–8 · Berean Standard Bible
4 “Come,” they said, “let us build for ourselves a city with a tower that reaches to the heavens, that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of all the earth.”
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.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
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Genesis 11:1Now the whole world had one language and a common form of speech.
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Acts 17:26From one man He made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and He determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their lands.
Genesis 6:5Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great upon the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was altogether evil all the time.
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Psalms 2:1Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?
Psalms 2:2The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers gather together, against the LORD and against His Anointed One:
Psalms 2:3“Let us break Their chains and cast away Their cords.”
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