Genesis 11:6-8

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

⁶And the Lord said, Behold, they are one people and they have ^[a]all one language; and this is only the beginning of what they will do, and now nothing they have imagined they can do will be impossible for them.

⁷Come, let Us go down and there confound (mix up, confuse) their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.

⁸So the Lord scattered them abroad from that place upon the face of the whole earth, and they gave up building the city.

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Footnotes

Genesis 11:6 Some noted philologists have declared that a common origin of all languages cannot be denied. One, Max Mueller (The Science of Language), said “We have examined all possible forms which language can assume, and now we ask, can we reconcile with these three distinct forms, the radical, the terminational, the inflectional, the admission of one common origin of human speech? I answer decidedly, ‘Yes’.” The New Bible Commentary says, “The original unity of human language, though still far from demonstrable, becomes increasingly probable.”