Genesis 11:1-9

1Now the whole earth 1used the same language and 2the same words. 2It came about as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land 3of Shinar and 4settled there. 3They said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and burn them thoroughly.” And they used brick for stone, and they used 5tar for mortar. 4They said, “Come, let us build for ourselves a city, and a tower whose top 6will reach into heaven, and let us make for ourselves 7a name, otherwise we 8will be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.” 59The Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built. 6The Lord said, “Behold, they are one people, and they all have 1011the same language. And this is what they began to do, and now nothing which they purpose to do will be 12impossible for them. 7Come, 13let Us go down and there 14confuse their 15language, so that they will not understand one another’s 16speech.” 8So the Lord 17scattered them abroad from there over the face of the whole earth; and they stopped building the city. 9Therefore its name was called 1819Babel, because there the Lord confused the 20language of the whole earth; and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of the whole earth.