Bible Verses About The Tower Of Babel

Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

Genesis 11:9 is the key ending verse for the language split.

Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.

Direct command to confound language.

And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.

Main Genesis text for the tower-building act.

And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.

Shows the divine descent before the language confusion.

And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.

Genesis 11:1 gives the pre-Babel condition of one language.

So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.

Direct scattering after confusion.

And 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.

Shows the pride and fear of being scattered that prompted the tower.

Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language.

Useful New Testament language-confusion parallel for background.

But there was a strong tower within the city, and thither fled all the men and women, and all they of the city, and shut it to them, and gat them up to the top of the tower.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.

Genesis 10:5 shows later division into languages and nations.

And he said unto me, To build it an house in the land of Shinar: and it shall be established, and set there upon her own base.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is without signification.

General statement about many languages in the world.

And 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 morter.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not understand.

Language that cannot be understood, fitting the Babel theme as background.