- And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.
- And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that
they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.
- And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and
burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime
had they for mortar.
- And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower,
whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest
we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
- And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which
the children of men builded.
- And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have
all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will
be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
- Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language,
that they may not understand one another's speech.
- So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face
of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
- Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD
did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence
did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
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