Popular Bible Verses from Genesis 11

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And he said, Lo! the people is one, and one language is to all, and they have begun to make this; neither they shall cease of their thoughts, till they [ful] fill those [or them] in work; therefore come ye, go we down, and shame [or confound] we there the tongue of them, that each man hear not the voice of his neighbour.

and they said, Come ye, and make we to us a city and a tower, whose highness stretch till to heaven; and make we solemn our name, before that we be parted into all lands.

And therefore the name thereof was called Babel, for the language of all [the] earth was confounded there; and from thence the Lord scattered them on the face of all countries.

Forsooth the land was of one language, and of the same speech [or the same words].

Forsooth the Lord came down to see the city, and the tower, which the sons of Adam builded.

And so the Lord separated them from that place into all lands; and they ceased to build the city.