Genesis 11:1-8 ▼

1 At one time the whole earth had the same language and vocabulary.

2 As people migrated from the east, they found a valley in the land of Shinar and settled there.

3 They said to each other, “Come, let us make oven-fired bricks.” They used brick for stone and asphalt for mortar.

4 And they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the sky. Let us make a name for ourselves; otherwise, we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”

5 Then the LORD came down to look over the city and the tower that the men were building.

6 The LORD said, “If they have begun to do this as one people all having the same language, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.

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

8 So from there the LORD scattered them over the face of the whole earth, and they stopped building the city.