Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of all the earth. From there, the LORD scattered them abroad on the surface of all the earth.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Genesis 11:9 in context
Genesis 11:6–12
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The LORD 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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Come, let’s go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”
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So the LORD scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city.
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Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of all the earth. From there, the LORD scattered them abroad on the surface of all the earth.
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This is the history of the generations of Shem: Shem was one hundred years old when he became the father of Arpachshad two years after the flood.
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Shem lived five hundred years after he became the father of Arpachshad, and became the father of more sons and daughters.
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Arpachshad lived thirty-five years and became the father of Shelah.
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