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
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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)
“And the Lord scattered them from there over the face of all the earth and they ceased building the city.”
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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