The Tower of Babel
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Genesis 11
1 Now the whole world had one language and a common speech.
2 As men moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there.
3 They said to each other, "Come, let's make bricks and bake them
thoroughly." They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar.
4 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
and not be scattered over the face of the whole earth."
5 But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the men were
building.
6 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.
7 Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand
each other."
8 So the LORD scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped
building the city.
9 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.
