Genesis 11:3-9

3Then they said to one another, “Come, let’s make bricks and 1fire them thoroughly.” And they used brick for stone, and they used 2tar for mortar. 4And they said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top 3will reach into heaven, and let’s make 4a name for ourselves; otherwise we 5will be scattered abroad over the face of all the earth.” 5Now 6the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the 7men had built. 6And the Lord said, “Behold, they are one people, and they all have 89the same language. And this is what they have started to do, and now nothing which they plan to do will be 10impossible for them. 7Come, 1112let Us go down and there 13confuse their 14language, so that they will not understand one another’s 15speech.” 8So the Lord 16scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth; and they stopped building the city. 9Therefore it was named 1718Babel, because there the Lord confused the 19language of all the earth; and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.