Genesis 11:8 — Bible Verse (KJV)
“So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.”
Genesis 11:8 — King James Version (KJV), 1611
Genesis 11:8 in 7 Bible Translations
Read Genesis 11:8 in the King James Version (KJV) and 6 other free, public-domain translations side by side.
Genesis 11:8 WEB — World English Bible (2000)
“So Yahweh scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city.”
Genesis 11:8 — World English Bible
Genesis 11:8 ASV — American Standard Version (1901)
“So Jehovah scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off building the city.”
Genesis 11:8 — American Standard Version
Genesis 11:8 YLT — Young's Literal Translation (1862)
“And Jehovah doth scatter them from thence over the face of all the earth, and they cease to build the city;”
Genesis 11:8 — Young's Literal Translation
Genesis 11:8 DBY — Darby Translation (1890)
“And Jehovah scattered them thence over the face of the whole earth. And they left off building the city.”
Genesis 11:8 — Darby Translation
Genesis 11:8 GEN — Geneva Bible (1599)
“So ye Lord scattered them from thence vpon all the earth, and they left off to build the citie.”
Genesis 11:8 — Geneva Bible
Genesis 11:8 LS — The Living Sword (2024)
“Therefore its name was called Babel—because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth and from there the Lord scattered them over the face of all the earth.”
Genesis 11:8 — The Living Sword
Genesis 11:8 in Context — Genesis 11
6 And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.
8 So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
9 Therefore 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.
10 These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:
What Does Genesis 11:8 Mean?
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