Genesis 11:7
The Scripture
(7) Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
Chapter overview (whole chapter)
In Genesis 11 the people of Babel construct a great tower that reaches toward the heavens, and God becomes displeased with their ambition. He confuses their languages, causing them to scatter across the earth, which marks the beginning of human dispersion.
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