Genesis 11:4-8 ▼

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.