Genesis 11:1-8 ▼

1 And all the whole earth was of one language and lyke speache.

2 And when they went foorth from the east, they founde a playne in the lande of Sinar, and there they abode.

3 And one sayd to another: Come, let vs prepare brycke, and burne them in the fire. And they had brycke for stones, and slyme had they in steade of morter.

4 And they sayd: Go to, let vs buylde vs a citie and a towre, whose toppe may reache vnto heauen, and let vs make vs a name, lest peraduenture we be scattered abrode into the vpper face of the whole earth.

5 But the Lorde came downe to see the citie and towre whiche the chyldren of men buylded.

6 And the Lorde sayd: Beholde, the people is one, and they haue all one language, and this they begin to do: neither is there any let to them from all those thinges whiche they haue imagined to do.

7 Come on, let vs go downe, and there confounde their language, that euerye one perceaue not his neighbours speache.

8 And so the Lorde scattered them from that place into the vpper face of all the earth, and they left of to buylde that citie.