Genesis 11:9
Good News Translation
The city was called Babylon, because there the LORD mixed up the language of all the people, and from there he scattered them all over the earth.

New Revised Standard Version
Therefore it was called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of all the earth; and from there the LORD scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.

New American Bible
That is why it was called Babel, because there the LORD confused the speech of all the world. From there the LORD scattered them over all the earth.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And 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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And 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.

Babel.

660 feet, in length and breadth; and, according to Strabo, it rose to the same altitude. It was of a pyramidical form, consisting of eight square towers, gradually decreasing in breadth, with a winding ascent on the outside, so very broad as to allow horses and carriages to pass each other, and even to turn. This magnificent structure is so completely destroyed that its very site is doubtful; and when supposed to be discovered, in all cases exhibiting a heap of rubbish.

Genesis 10:5,10,20,31 By these were divided the islands of the Gentiles in their lands, every one according to his tongue and their families in their nations. . . .

Isaiah 13:1-14:32 The burden of Babylon which Isaiah the son of Amos saw. . . .

Jeremiah 50:1-51:64 The word that the Lord hath spoken against Babylon, and against the land of the Chaldeans in the hand of Jeremiah the prophet. . . .

1 Corinthians 14:23 If therefore the whole church come together into one place, and all speak with tongues, and there come in unlearned persons or infidels, will they not say that you are mad?

the face.

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. . . .

Acts 17:26 And hath made of one, all mankind, to dwell upon the whole face of the earth, determining appointed times and the limits of their habitation.

Context
The Tower of Babel
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
Genesis 10:10
And the beginning of his kingdom was Babylon, and Arach, and Achad, and Chalanne in the land of Sennaar.

Psalm 55:9
Cast down, O Lord, and divide their tongues; for I have seen iniquity and contradiction in the city.

Jeremiah 50:1
The word that the Lord hath spoken against Babylon, and against the land of the Chaldeans in the hand of Jeremiah the prophet.

Genesis 11:8
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