GENESIS 11.7
1 And the whole earth was of one language, and of
one speech. 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. 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.
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. 5 And the Lord came down to see the city
and the tower, which the children built. 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.
7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language,
that they may not understand one another's speech. 8 So
the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face
of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
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.
