Genesis 11:8
Good News Translation
So the LORD scattered them all over the earth, and they stopped building the city.

New Revised Standard Version
So the LORD scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city.

New American Bible
So the LORD scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And so the Lord scattered them from that place into all lands, and they ceased to build the city.

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

Lord.

Genesis 11:4,9 And they said: Come, let us make a city and a tower, the top whereof may reach to heaven; and let us make our name famous before we be scattered abroad into all lands. . . .

Genesis 49:7 Cursed be their fury, because it was stubborn: and their wrath, because it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and will scatter them in Israel.

Deuteronomy 32:8 When the Most High divided the nations: when he separated the sons of Adam, he appointed the bounds of people according to the number of the children of Israel.

Luke 1:51 He hath shewed might in his arm: he hath scattered the proud in the conceit of their heart.

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Genesis 10:25,32 And to Heber were born two sons: the name of the one was Phaleg, because in his days was the earth divided: and his brother's name Jectan. . . .

Context
The Tower of Babel
7Come ye, therefore, let us go down, and there confound their tongue, that they may not understand one another's speech. 8And so the Lord scattered them from that place into all lands, and they ceased to build the city.9And therefore the name thereof was called Babel, because there the language of the whole earth was confounded: and from thence the Lord scattered them abroad upon the face of all countries.…
Cross References
Luke 1:51
He hath shewed might in his arm: he hath scattered the proud in the conceit of their heart.

Genesis 11:4
And they said: Come, let us make a city and a tower, the top whereof may reach to heaven; and let us make our name famous before we be scattered abroad into all lands.

Psalm 92:9
For behold thy enemies, O Lord, for behold thy enemies shall perish: and all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered.

Genesis 11:7
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