Therefore it is called Babylon,[a][b](A) for there the Lord confused the language of the whole earth, and from there the Lord scattered them throughout the earth.

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Footnotes

  1. 11:9 Hb Babel
  2. 11:9 In Hb, the name for “Babylon,” babel sounds like the word for “confuse,” balal.

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