Genesis 11:1-4 ▼

1 There was a time when the entire earth spoke a common language with an identical vocabulary.

2 As people migrated westward, they came across a plain in the region of Shinar and settled there.

3 They told each other, |Come on! Let's burn bricks thoroughly.| They used bricks for stone and tar for mortar.

4 Then they said, |Come on! Let's build ourselves a city and a tower, with its summit in the heavens, and let's make a name for ourselves so we won't be scattered over the surface of the whole earth.|