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Now all the earth ^(F1)used the same language and ^(F2)the same words.

And it came about, as they journeyed ^(F1)east, that they found a plain in the land ^(C1)of Shinar and ^(F2)settled there.

Then they said to one another, "Come, let's make bricks and ^(F1)fire them thoroughly." And they used brick for stone, and they used ^(C1)tar for mortar.

And they said, "Come, let's build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top ^(C1)will reach into heaven, and let's make ^(C2)a name for ourselves; otherwise we ^(C3)will be scattered abroad over the face of all the earth."

Now ^(C1)the LORD came down to see the city and the tower which the ^(F1)men had built.

And the LORD said, "Behold, they are one people, and they all have ^(F1)(C1)the same language. And this is what they have started to do, and now nothing which they plan to do will be ^(F2)impossible for them.

"Come, ^(F1)(C1)let Us go down and there ^(C2)confuse their ^(F2)language, so that they will not understand one another's ^(F2)speech."

So the LORD ^(C1)scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth; and they stopped building the city.

Therefore it was named ^(F1)(C1)Babel, because there the LORD confused the ^(F2)language of all the earth; and from there the LORD scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.