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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.| 5 However, the LORD descended to look over the city and the tower that the humans were building. 6 The LORD said, |Look! They are one people with the same language for all of them, and this is only the beginning of what they will do. Nothing that they have a mind to do will be impossible for them! 7 Come on! Let's go down there and confuse their language, so that they won't understand each other's speech.| 8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from there over the surface of the whole earth, so that they had to stop building the city. Genesis 11:1-8, Intl. Standard Version. Copyright © 1995-2014 by ISV Foundation.
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