1 And the whole earth was of one language,
and of one speech. 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. 3 And they said
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. 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.
5 And the LORD came down to see the
city and the tower, which the children of men builded. 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. 7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they
may not understand one another's speech. 8 So the LORD scattered them abroad
from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the
city. 9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel; 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.