Genesis 11:4
“Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.”
King James Version
The scattering of humanity and confusion of languages at Babel, fulfilled immediately and reversed at Pentecost.
Fulfillment References
Acts 2:4-11 Zephaniah 3:9
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