Genesis 11:9

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Genesis 11:9 · BSB

⁸So the LORD scattered them from there over the face of all the earth, and they stopped building the city.

⁹That 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.

¹⁰This is the account of Shem. Two years after the flood, when Shem was 100 years old, he became the father of Arphaxad.

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The Berean Standard Bible rendered in the vocabulary of the ancient world — firmament, Sheol, ascension offering — with the translators' notes shown inline. About this translation

⁸So the LORD scattered them from there over the face of all the earth, and they stopped building the city.

⁹That 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.

Or Babylon; the Hebrew word for Babel sounds like the Hebrew for confused.

¹⁰This is the account of Shem. Two years after the flood, when Shem was 100 years old, he became the father of Arphaxad.

King James Version +

The 1611 translation, in its familiar form.

⁸So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.

⁹Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

¹⁰These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:

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