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Now all the earth used the same language and the same words.

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

And it came about, as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Now the LORD came down to see the city and the tower which the men had built.

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

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

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.

"Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another's speech."

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

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

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

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

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.