Genesis 11:6
Good News Translation
and he said, "Now then, these are all one people and they speak one language; this is just the beginning of what they are going to do. Soon they will be able to do anything they want!

New Revised Standard Version
And the LORD said, “Look, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is only the beginning of what they will do; nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them.

Contemporary English Version
he said: These people are working together because they all speak the same language. This is just the beginning. Soon they will be able to do anything they want.

New American Bible
Then the LORD said: If now, while they are one people and all have the same language, they have started to do this, nothing they presume to do will be out of their reach.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he said: Behold, it is one people, and all have one tongue: and they have begun to do this, neither will they leave off from their designs, till they accomplish them in deed.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he said: Behold, it is one people, and all have one tongue: and they have begun to do this, neither will they leave off from their designs, till they accomplish them in deed.

Behold.

Genesis 3:22 And he said: Behold Adam is become as one of us, knowing good and evil: now therefore lest perhaps he put forth his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever.

Judges 10:14 Go, and call upon the gods which you have chosen: let them deliver you in the time of distress.

1 Kings 18:27 And when it was now noon, Elias jested at them, saying: Cry with a louder voice: for he is a god; and perhaps he is talking, or is in an inn, or on a journey; or perhaps he is asleep, and must be awaked.

Ecclesiastes 11:9 Rejoice therefore, O young man, in thy youth, and let thy heart be in that which is good in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thy heart, and in the sight of thy eyes: and know that for all these God will bring thee into judgment.

the people.

Genesis 11:1 And the earth was of one tongue, and of the same speech.

Genesis 9:19 These three are the sons of Noe: and from these was all mankind spread over the whole earth.

Acts 17:26 And hath made of one, all mankind, to dwell upon the whole face of the earth, determining appointed times and the limits of their habitation.

imagined.

Genesis 6:5 And God seeing that the wickedness of men was great on the earth, and that all the thought of their heart was bent upon evil at all times,

Genesis 8:21 And the Lord smelled a sweet savour, and said: I will no more curse the earth for the sake of man: for the imagination and thought of man's heart are prone to evil from his youth: therefore I will no more destroy every living soul as I have done.

Psalm 2:1-4 Why have the Gentiles raged, and the people devised vain things? . . .

Luke 1:51 He hath shewed might in his arm: he hath scattered the proud in the conceit of their heart.

Context
The Tower of Babel
5And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of Adam were building. 6And he said: Behold, it is one people, and all have one tongue: and they have begun to do this, neither will they leave off from their designs, till they accomplish them in deed.7Come ye, therefore, let us go down, and there confound their tongue, that they may not understand one another's speech.…
Cross References
Genesis 11:1
And the earth was of one tongue, and of the same speech.

Amos 4:7
I also have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon on city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon: and the piece whereupon I rained not, withered.

Genesis 11:5
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