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Therefore 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.

Genesis 11:9 · WEB

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ગુજરાતીઉત્પત્તિ ૧૧:૯
તેથી તે નગરને બાબિલ એટલે ગૂંચવણ કહેવામાં આવે છે. કેમ કે ઈશ્વરે પૃથ્વી પરની ભાષામાં ગૂંચવણ કરી અને ઈશ્વરે તેઓને ત્યાંથી પૃથ્વી પર ચોતરફ વિખેરી નાખ્યા.
हिन्दीउत्पत्ति ११:९
इस कारण उस नगर का नाम बाबेल पड़ा; क्योंकि सारी पृथ्वी की भाषा में जो गड़बड़ी है, वह यहोवा ने वहीं डाली, और वहीं से यहोवा ने मनुष्यों को सारी पृथ्वी के ऊपर फैला दिया।

In context

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.

10This is the history of the generations of Shem: Shem was one hundred years old when he became the father of Arpachshad two years after the flood.

11Shem lived five hundred years after he became the father of Arpachshad, and became the father of more sons and daughters.

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