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Genesis 11:6

WEB

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.

KJV

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.

BSB

6And the LORD said, “If they have begun to do this as one people speaking the same language, then nothing they devise will be beyond them.

FBV

6The Lord said, “Look! These people are united and they all speak one language. If this is what they can do now when they're just getting started, nothing will be impossible for them when they all put their minds to it!

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Extra References

Psalms 2:1-4

1Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing? 2The kings of the earth take a stand, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his Anointed,3“Let’s [+] break their bonds apart, and cast their cords from us.” 4He who sits in the heavens will laugh. The Lord[+] will have them in derision.


Genesis 3:22

22The LORD God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand, and also take of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever—”


Ecclesiastes 11:9

9Rejoice, young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart, and in the sight of your eyes; but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.


Genesis 11:1

1The whole earth was of one language and of one speech.


Luke 1:51

51He has shown strength with his arm. He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.


Genesis 6:5

5The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil.


Genesis 8:21

21The LORD smelled the pleasant aroma. The LORD said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth. I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done.


Genesis 9:19

19These three were the sons of Noah, and from these the whole earth was populated.


Acts 17:26

26He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons and the boundaries of their dwellings,


Judges 10:14

14Go and cry to the gods which you have chosen. Let them save you in the time of your distress!”