Genesis 11:2-9

2And it came about, as they journeyed 1east, that they found a plain in the land 2of Shinar and 3settled there. 3Then they said to one another, “Come, let’s make bricks and 4fire them thoroughly.” And they used brick for stone, and they used 5tar for mortar. 4And they said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top 6will reach into heaven, and let’s make 7a name for ourselves; otherwise we 8will be scattered abroad over the face of all the earth.” 5Now 9the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the 10men had built. 6And the Lord said, “Behold, they are one people, and they all have 1112the same language. And this is what they have started to do, and now nothing which they plan to do will be 13impossible for them. 7Come, 1415let Us go down and there 16confuse their 17language, so that they will not understand one another’s 18speech.” 8So the Lord 19scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth; and they stopped building the city. 9Therefore it was named 2021Babel, because there the Lord confused the 22language of all the earth; and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.