The Tower of Babel

5 passages

1. Genesis 11:4

   “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.”

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2. Genesis 11:7

   Come, let Us go down and confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.”

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3. Genesis 11:1

   Now the whole world had one language and a common form of speech.

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4. Genesis 11:9

   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.

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5. Genesis 9:1

   And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.

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