Genesis 11:6-9

6And the Lord said, “Indeed the people are one and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do; now nothing that they propose to do will be withheld from them.

7Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”

8So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they ceased building the city.

9Therefore its name is called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth; and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.