11:7 Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other."
我们下去，在那里变乱他们的口音，使他们的言语彼此不通。”
11:8 So the LORD scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city.
于是，耶和华使他们从那里分散在全地上，他们就停工不造那城了。
11:9 That is why it was called Babel --because there the LORD confused the language of the whole world. From there the LORD scattered them over the face of the whole earth.
因为耶和华在那里变乱天下人的言语，使众人分散在全地上，所以那城名叫巴别（就是“变乱”的意思）。