Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. As people moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there.
They
said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.”
They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. Then they said,
“Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the
heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be
scattered over the face of the whole earth.”
But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower the people were building. The LORD
said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to
do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.
Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not
understand each other.”
So the LORD
scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building
the city. That is why it was called Babel—because there the LORD confused the language of the whole world. From there the LORD scattered them over the face of the whole earth.
-Genesis 11:1-9, NIV Translation
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