Genesis 11:7
Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.In other versions
Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
ASV
Come, let us go down and take away the sense of their language, so that they will not be able to make themselves clear to one another.
BBE
Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
DBY
Come, let's go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech."
WEB
Give help, let us go down, and mingle there their pronunciation, so that a man doth not understand the pronunciation of his companion.'
YLT
Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
ENG
Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
WBT
Come, let Us go down and confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.”
BSB
In context
5And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
6And 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.
7Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
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.