So the LORD scattered them abroad from there on the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. Context The Tower of Babel
1And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. 2And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelled there. 3And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. 4And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach to heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad on the face of the whole earth. 5And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built. 6And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. 7Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. 8So the LORD scattered them abroad from there on the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. 9Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from there did the LORD scatter them abroad on the face of all the earth. Parallel Verses American Standard Version
So Jehovah scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off 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.
Darby Bible Translation
And Jehovah scattered them thence over the face of the whole earth. And they left off building the city.
King James Bible
So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
Young's Literal Translation
And Jehovah doth scatter them from thence over the face of all the earth, and they cease to build the city;
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