KJV ORIGINAL
So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
Close to the original. Clear modern English.
✦ MADE SIMPLE
So the LORD scattered them from that place across the entire earth, and they stopped building the city.
⚡ THE BOTTOM LINE
God scattered the people across the world and made them stop building their city as a consequence of their pride and rebellion.
📚 Historical Context
This verse concludes the famous Tower of Babel story, where humanity united to build a great tower reaching to heaven in defiance of God's command to spread across the earth. God responded by confusing their language and scattering them worldwide. This ancient narrative explains how different languages and peoples came to be distributed across the earth.
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