• Genesis 11:1

    And the whole earth was of one language,a and of one speech.

  • Genesis 11:2

    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.

  • Genesis 11:3

    And they saidb one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.

  • Genesis 11:4

    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.

  • Genesis 11:5

    And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.

  • Genesis 11:6

    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.

  • Genesis 11:7

    Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.

  • Genesis 11:8

    So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.

  • Genesis 11:9

    Therefore is the name of it called Babel;c 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.

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