So the Lord (A)scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth; and they stopped building the city. Therefore it was named [a](B)Babel, because there the Lord confused the [b]language of all the earth; and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 11:9 Or Babylon; cf. Heb balal, confuse
  2. Genesis 11:9 Lit lip

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