Genesis
11:1 And the whole earth was of one language, and of one
speech.
11:2 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.
11:3 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.
11:4 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.
11:5 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of
men builded.
11:6 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.
11:7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not
understand one another's speech.
11:8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the
earth: and they left off to build the city.
11:9 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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