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Selected Verse: Genesis 11:9 - King James

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Ge 11:9 King James 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.

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The Scofield Bible Commentary, by Cyrus Ingerson Scofield, [1917]
Babel

That is, Confusion.

(See Scofield) - (Gen 11:1).

(See Scofield) - (Isa 13:1)_
 
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1 The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.
1 And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.
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.