Genesis 11:7 in every translation
Leer en españolThe same verse in each translation we publish, grouped by language and by the tradition that made it. Numbering is matched for each text (for example, Psalms in the Septuagint).
English
Catholic
DRB Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899
Come ye, therefore, let us go down, and there confound their tongue, that they may not understand one another’s speech.
CPDV Catholic Public Domain Version
Therefore, come, let us descend, and in that place confound their tongue, so that they may not listen, each one to the voice of his neighbor.”
Protestant
WEB World English Bible (Classic, with Deuterocanon)
Come, let’s go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”
WEBBE World English Bible British Edition (with Deuterocanon)
Come, let’s go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”
KJV King James Version (with Apocrypha)
Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.
RV Revised Version with Apocrypha
Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.
MSB Majority Standard Bible
Come, let Us go down and confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.”
BSB Berean Standard Bible
Come, let Us go down and confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.”
ASV American Standard Version (1901)
Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.
LSV Literal Standard Version
Give help, let us go down there and confuse their language, so that a man will not understand the language of his companion.”
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Darby Darby Translation
Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
Webster Noah Webster's Bible (1833)
Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
GNV Geneva Bible (1599)
Come on, let vs goe downe, and there confound their language, that euery one perceiue not anothers speache.
ULB Unlocked Literal Bible
Come, let us go down and confuse their language there, so that they may not understand each other.”
Read in context · Unlocked Literal Bible. Copyright © 2017 Door43 World Missions Community. Text from eBible.org (https://ebible.org/engULB/), unaltered. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Jewish
JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)
Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.'
Individual translator
Brenton Brenton's English Septuagint
Come, and having gone down let us there confound their tongue, that they may not understand each the voice of his neighbour.
LXXUP Updated Brenton English Septuagint
Come, and having gone down let us there confound their tongue, that they may not understand each the voice of his neighbor.
YLT Young's Literal Translation
Give help, let us go down, and mingle there their pronunciation, so that a man doth not understand the pronunciation of his companion.'
FBV Free Bible Version
We need to go down and mix up their language and make it confused so they won't be able to understand what they're saying to one other.”
Read in context · Free Bible Version. Copyright © 2018 Dr. Jonathan Gallagher. Text from eBible.org (https://ebible.org/engfbv/), unaltered. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Scholarly edition
BBE Bible in Basic English
Come, let us go down and take away the sense of their language, so that they will not be able to make themselves clear to one another.
Spanish
Protestant
RV1909 Reina-Valera 1909
Ahora pues, descendamos, y confundamos allí sus lenguas, para que ninguno entienda el habla de su compañero.
ONBV Biblica Open New Living Bible (Nueva Biblia Viva 2008)
Vamos, descendamos y hagamos que hablen diversos idiomas, para que no puedan entenderse».
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PDT God's Word for You (Latin American Textual Bible)
Vamos, descendamos ya y confundamos allí su lengua para que nadie entienda el lenguaje del otro.
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Individual translator
VBL Free Bible Version (Spanish)
Necesitamos bajar allí y confundir su idioma para que no puedan entender lo que se dicen unos a otros”.
Read in context · Versión Biblia Libre. Copyright © 2018-2020 Jonathan Gallagher y Shelly Barrios de Avila. Texto de eBible.org (https://ebible.org/spavbl/), sin cambios. Licencia CC BY-SA 4.0.
BES Bible in Simple Spanish (2026)
Vamos, bajemos y confundamos su idioma para que no puedan entenderse unos a otros».
Read in context · La Biblia en Español Sencillo, traducida y editada por Irma Flores (AudioBiblia.org).
Greek
Scholarly edition
LXX Brenton's Greek Septuagint
Δεῦτε, καὶ καταβάντες συγχέωμεν αὐτῶν ἐκεῖ τὴν γλῶσσαν, ἵνα μὴ ἀκούσωσιν ἕκαστος τὴν φωνὴν τοῦ πλησίον.
Hebrew
Scholarly edition
WLC Westminster Leningrad Codex
הָ֚בָה נֵֽרְדָ֔ה וְנָבְלָ֥ה שָׁ֖ם שְׂפָתָ֑ם אֲשֶׁר֙ לֹ֣א יִשְׁמְע֔וּ אִ֖ישׁ שְׂפַ֥ת רֵעֵֽהוּ׃
Latin
Catholic
VUL Clementine Vulgate
Venite igitur, descendamus, et confundamus ibi linguam eorum, ut non audiat unusquisque vocem proximi sui.
Church Slavonic
Orthodox
Slavonic Church Slavonic Bible (Elizabeth Bible)
Прїиди́те, и҆ соше́дше смѣси́мъ та́мѡ ѧ҆зы́къ и҆́хъ, да не ᲂу҆слы́шатъ кі́йждо гла́са бли́жнѧгѡ (своегѡ̀).
Read in context · Church Slavonic text: Ponomar Project (github.com/typiconman/ponomar), © 2006–2018 Aleksandr Andreev and others, licensed under the GNU General Public License v3 or later. Changes for this site (2026-10-18): lectionary pericope markers, marginal glosses and the closing note of Genesis removed, Psalm verses renumbered to the Russian Synodal numbering, joined verses noted; the words are unchanged.
Russian
Orthodox
Synodal Russian Synodal Bible (1876)
сойдем же и смешаем там язык их, так чтобы один не понимал речи другого.
Greek (modern)
Individual translator
Vamvas Modern Greek Bible: Vamvas (1850)
έλθετε, ας καταβώμεν και ας συγχύσωμεν εκεί την γλώσσαν αυτών, διά να μη εννοή ο εις του άλλου την γλώσσαν.
Serbian
Individual translator
DK Serbian Bible: Daničić–Karadžić (Cyrillic)
Хајде да сиђемо, и да им пометемо језик, да не разумеју један другог шта говоре.
DK latinica Serbian Bible: Daničić–Karadžić (Latin script)
Hajde da siđemo, i da im pometemo jezik, da ne razumeju jedan drugog šta govore.
Arabic
Protestant
SVD Arabic Bible: Smith–Van Dyck (1865)
هَلُمَّ نَنْزِلْ وَنُبَلْبِلْ هُنَاكَ لِسَانَهُمْ حَتَّى لَا يَسْمَعَ بَعْضُهُمْ لِسَانَ بَعْضٍ».
Not in these translations (8)
Tyndale, Scío, PT1904, PT, RP2018, TR, Nestle 1904, SBLGNT