Genesis 11:8 KJV — MannaFest

Genesis 11:8

So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.

KJV

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ASV

So Jehovah scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off building the city.

WEB

So the LORD scattered them from there over the face of all the earth, and they stopped building the city.

YLT

And Jehovah doth scatter them from thence over the face of all the earth, and they cease to build the city;

DBT

And Jehovah scattered them thence over the face of the whole earth. And they left off building the city.

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Genesis — 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)

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7 verses on the floor

Luke 1:51
He hath shewed strength with his arm; he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.
Deuteronomy 32:8
When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.
Genesis 10:32
These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.
Genesis 10:25
And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother’s name was Joktan.
Genesis 11:4
And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.

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(5.) We may here lament the loss of the universal use of the Hebrew tongue, which from this time was the vulgar language of the Hebrews only, and continued so till the captivity in Babylon, where, even among them, it was exchanged for the Syriac.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

His country: Ur of the Chaldees. This was the land of his nativity, an idolatrous country, where even the children of Eber themselves had degenerated. Note, Those who are, through grace, heirs of the land of promise, ought to remember what was the land of their nativity, what was their corrupt and sinful state by nature, the rock out of which they were hewn.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

GEN 11:8DEU 32:8 ACT 17:26
Reached by 4 independent paths from here.
GEN 11:8LUK 1:51 PSA 98:1
GEN 11:8GEN 11:9 GEN 10:10
GEN 11:8GEN 11:9 GEN 10:5
GEN 11:8LUK 1:51 ISA 52:10
GEN 11:8GEN 10:25 1CH 1:19
GEN 11:8GEN 11:9 GEN 10:20
GEN 11:8LUK 1:51 1SA 2:3-4

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