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Come, let’s go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”

Genesis 11:7 · WEB

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ગુજરાતીઉત્પત્તિ ૧૧:૭
આવો, આપણે ત્યાં નીચે ઉતરીએ અને તેઓની ભાષાને ગૂંચવી નાખીએ, કે જેથી તેઓ એકબીજાની બોલી સમજી શકે નહિ.”
हिन्दीउत्पत्ति ११:७
इसलिए आओ, हम उतरकर उनकी भाषा में बड़ी गड़बड़ी डालें, कि वे एक दूसरे की बोली को न समझ सकें।”

In context

5The LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.

6The LORD said, “Behold, they are one people, and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do.

7Come, let’s go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”

8So the LORD scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city.

9Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of all the earth. From there, the LORD scattered them abroad on the surface of all the earth.

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