Genesis 11:8 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
Protestant
WEB World English Bible (Classic, with Deuterocanon)
So Yahweh scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city.
WEBBE World English Bible British Edition (with Deuterocanon)
So the LORD scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city.
KJV King James Version (with Apocrypha)
So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
RV Revised Version with Apocrypha
So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
MSB Majority Standard Bible
So the LORD scattered them from there over the face of all the earth, and they stopped building the city.
BSB Berean Standard Bible
So the LORD scattered them from there over the face of all the earth, and they stopped building the city.
ASV American Standard Version (1901)
So Jehovah scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off building the city.
LSV Literal Standard Version
And YHWH scatters them from there over the face of all the earth, and they cease to build the city;
Read in context · Literal Standard Version. Copyright © 2020 Covenant Press. Text from eBible.org (https://ebible.org/englsv/), unaltered. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Darby Darby Translation
And Jehovah scattered them thence over the face of the whole earth. And they left off building the city.
Webster Noah Webster's Bible (1833)
So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
GNV Geneva Bible (1599)
So ye Lord scattered them from thence vpon all the earth, and they left off to build the citie.
ULB Unlocked Literal Bible
So Yahweh scattered them from there across the surface of all the earth and they stopped building the city.
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)
So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth; and they left off to build the city.
Individual translator
Brenton Brenton's English Septuagint
And the Lord scattered them thence over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city and the tower.
LXXUP Updated Brenton English Septuagint
And the Lord scattered them thence over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city and the tower.
YLT 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;
FBV Free Bible Version
The Lord sent them away from there and scattered them all over the world, and they gave up building the city.
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
So the Lord God sent them away into every part of the earth: and they gave up building their town.
Spanish
Protestant
RV1909 Reina-Valera 1909
Así los esparció Jehová desde allí sobre la faz de toda la tierra, y dejaron de edificar la ciudad.
ONBV Biblica Open New Living Bible (Nueva Biblia Viva 2008)
Así, pues, Dios los esparció por toda la tierra, lo que impidió que terminaran la construcción de la ciudad.
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PDT God's Word for You (Latin American Textual Bible)
Yavé los dispersó de allí por toda la superficie de la tierra, y desistieron de construir la ciudad.
Read in context · Palabra de Dios para ti © 2020 Asociación Bíblica Latinoamericana. Texto de eBible.org (https://ebible.org/spapddpt/), sin cambios. Licencia CC BY-SA 4.0.
Individual translator
VBL Free Bible Version (Spanish)
Y entonces el Señor los expulsó de allí e hizo que se dispersaran por todo el mundo, y dejaron de construir la ciudad.
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)
Así el Señor los dispersó desde allí por toda la tierra, y dejaron de construir la ciudad.
Read in context · La Biblia en Español Sencillo, traducida y editada por Irma Flores (AudioBiblia.org).
Greek
Scholarly edition
LXX Brenton's Greek Septuagint
Καὶ διέσπειρεν αὐτοὺς Κύριος ἐκεῖθεν ἐπὶ πρόσωπον πάσης τῆς γῆς· καὶ ἐπαύσαντο οἰκοδομοῦντες τῆν πόλιν καὶ τὸν πύργον.
Hebrew
Scholarly edition
WLC Westminster Leningrad Codex
וַיָּ֨פֶץ יְהוָ֥ה אֹתָ֛ם מִשָּׁ֖ם עַל־פְּנֵ֣י כָל־הָאָ֑רֶץ וַֽיַּחְדְּל֖וּ לִבְנֹ֥ת הָעִֽיר׃
Latin
Catholic
VUL Clementine Vulgate
Atque ita divisit eos Dominus ex illo loco in universas terras, et cessaverunt ædificare civitatem.
Church Slavonic
Orthodox
Slavonic Church Slavonic Bible (Elizabeth Bible)
И҆ разсѣ́ѧ и҆̀хъ ѿтꙋ́дꙋ гдⷭ҇ь по лицꙋ̀ всеѧ̀ землѝ: и҆ преста́ша зи́ждꙋще гра́дъ и҆ сто́лпъ.
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)
И рассеял их Господь оттуда по всей земле; и они перестали строить город [и башню].
Greek (modern)
Individual translator
Vamvas Modern Greek Bible: Vamvas (1850)
Και διεσκόρπισεν αυτούς ο Κύριος εκείθεν επί του προσώπου πάσης της γής· και έπαυσαν να οικοδομώσι την πόλιν.
Serbian
Individual translator
DK Serbian Bible: Daničić–Karadžić (Cyrillic)
Тако их Господ расу оданде по свој земљи, те не сазидаше града.
DK latinica Serbian Bible: Daničić–Karadžić (Latin script)
Tako ih Gospod rasu odande po svoj zemlji, te ne sazidaše grada.
Arabic
Protestant
SVD Arabic Bible: Smith–Van Dyck (1865)
فَبَدَّدَهُمُ ٱلرَّبُّ مِنْ هُنَاكَ عَلَى وَجْهِ كُلِّ ٱلْأَرْضِ، فَكَفُّوا عَنْ بُنْيَانِ ٱلْمَدِينَةِ،
Not in these translations (8)
Tyndale, Scío, PT1904, PT, RP2018, TR, Nestle 1904, SBLGNT