Genesis 11:1 meaning and explanation
Now the whole world had one language and a common form of speech.
Genesis 11:1, Berean Standard Bible
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The narrator opens the Babel story by describing humanity after the flood as a single family with one language and a shared vocabulary. The Hebrew word for "language" is saphah, literally "lip," a common way of speaking about speech.
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