Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.
WEB
Come, let Us go down and confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.”
YLT
Give help, let us go down, and mingle there their pronunciation, so that a man doth not understand the pronunciation of his companion.'
DBT
Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentGenesis — The book of beginnings. Creation, fall, flood, covenant, election, providence — eleven generational seams stitch one unbroken story from heaven-and-earth to a coffin in Egypt.
- Author
- Moses — by traditional attribution; the book is the first of the Pentateuch
- Date
- Composed c. 15th–13th century BC; draws on older patriarchal sources (the toledoth framework is internal)